diff --git a/src/components/article.tsx b/src/components/article.tsx
index 03a3032..34bd2bf 100644
--- a/src/components/article.tsx
+++ b/src/components/article.tsx
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ import { RSSItem } from "../scripts/models/item"
 import { Stack, CommandBarButton, IContextualMenuProps, FocusZone, ContextualMenuItemType, Spinner, Icon, Link } from "@fluentui/react"
 import { RSSSource, SourceOpenTarget } from "../scripts/models/source"
 import { shareSubmenu } from "./context-menu"
-import { platformCtrl } from "../scripts/utils"
+import { platformCtrl, decodeFetchResponse } from "../scripts/utils"
 
 const FONT_SIZE_OPTIONS = [12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20]
 
@@ -214,7 +214,9 @@ class Article extends React.Component<ArticleProps, ArticleState> {
     loadFull = async () => {
         this.setState({ fullContent: "", loaded: false, error: false })
         try {
-            const html = await (await fetch(this.props.item.link)).text()
+            const result = await fetch(this.props.item.link)
+            if (!result || !result.ok) throw new Error()
+            const html = await decodeFetchResponse(result)
             this.setState({ fullContent: html })
         } catch {
             this.setState({ loaded: true, error: true, errorDescription: "MERCURY_PARSER_FAILURE" })
diff --git a/src/scripts/utils.ts b/src/scripts/utils.ts
index 82a12f5..42b2c0c 100644
--- a/src/scripts/utils.ts
+++ b/src/scripts/utils.ts
@@ -29,6 +29,14 @@ const rssParser = new Parser({
 })
 
 const CHARSET_RE = /charset=([^()<>@,;:\"/[\]?.=\s]*)/i
+export async function decodeFetchResponse(response: Response) {
+    const buffer = await response.arrayBuffer()
+    const ctype = response.headers.has("content-type") && response.headers.get("content-type")
+    const charset = (ctype && CHARSET_RE.test(ctype)) ? CHARSET_RE.exec(ctype)[1] : "utf-8"
+    const decoder = new TextDecoder(charset)
+    return decoder.decode(buffer)
+}
+
 export async function parseRSS(url: string) {
     let result: Response
     try {
@@ -38,11 +46,7 @@ export async function parseRSS(url: string) {
     }
     if (result && result.ok) {
         try {
-            const buffer = await result.arrayBuffer()
-            const ctype = result.headers.has("content-type") && result.headers.get("content-type")
-            const charset = (ctype && CHARSET_RE.test(ctype)) ? CHARSET_RE.exec(ctype)[1] : "utf-8"
-            const decoder = new TextDecoder(charset)
-            return await rssParser.parseString(decoder.decode(buffer))
+            return await rssParser.parseString(await decodeFetchResponse(result))
         } catch {
             throw new Error(intl.get("log.parseError"))
         }