diff -ur x/content/conquery/main.js z/content/conquery/main.js
--- x/content/conquery/main.js	Tue Dec  7 18:57:22 2004
+++ z/content/conquery/main.js	Wed Jan 19 21:26:14 2005
@@ -388,7 +388,11 @@
             var data = sis.read(sis.available());
             sis.close();
             is.close();
-            return data;
+            //return data;
+	    var uc = Components.classes["@mozilla.org/intl/scriptableunicodeconverter"].
+	      createInstance(Components.interfaces.nsIScriptableUnicodeConverter);
+	    uc.charset = "UTF-8";
+	    return uc.ConvertToUnicode( data );
         }
         else {
             cqerr(null, "File" + filename + "read error in cqReadFile\n");