diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index db273d1..d3015a0 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ regex = "1"
 trust-dns-client = "0.23"
 
 tokio = { version = "1", features = ["fs", "net", "time", "io-util"], optional = true }
+encoding_rs = "0.8.34"
 
 [dev-dependencies]
 tokio = { version = "1", features = ["macros", "rt"] }
diff --git a/src/who_is.rs b/src/who_is.rs
index 3769e33..f5a732f 100644
--- a/src/who_is.rs
+++ b/src/who_is.rs
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ use std::{
     time::Duration,
 };
 
+use encoding_rs::{UTF_8, WINDOWS_1252};
 use once_cell::sync::Lazy;
 use regex::Regex;
 use serde_json::{Map, Value};
@@ -243,9 +244,19 @@ impl WhoIs {
 
         client.flush()?;
 
-        let mut query_result = String::new();
+        let mut buf = vec![];
+        client.read_to_end(&mut buf)?;
 
-        client.read_to_string(&mut query_result)?;
+        let decoders = [UTF_8, WINDOWS_1252];
+
+        for decoder in &decoders {
+            let (cow, _encoding_used, had_errors) = decoder.decode(&buf);
+            if !had_errors {
+                return Ok((addr, cow.into_owned()));
+            }
+        }
+
+        let query_result = String::from_utf8_lossy(&buf).into_owned();
 
         Ok((addr, query_result))
     }
diff --git a/tests/test.rs b/tests/test.rs
index 252b07f..74d4379 100644
--- a/tests/test.rs
+++ b/tests/test.rs
@@ -21,6 +21,17 @@ fn test_srv() {
     println!("{}", result);
 }
 
+#[test]
+fn test_non_utf8_responses() {
+    let who = WhoIs::from_host("whois.arin.net").unwrap();
+    
+    let result = who.lookup(WhoIsLookupOptions::from_string("178.202.0.0").unwrap()).unwrap();
+    println!("{}", result);
+
+    let result = who.lookup(WhoIsLookupOptions::from_string("185.73.124.0").unwrap()).unwrap();
+    println!("{}", result);
+}
+
 #[cfg(feature = "tokio")]
 #[tokio::test]
 async fn test_async() {