diff --git a/requests/config.py b/requests/config.py
index 39be2ed4..5a7fcd3f 100644
--- a/requests/config.py
+++ b/requests/config.py
@@ -62,6 +62,7 @@ settings.proxies = None
 settings.verbose = None
 settings.timeout = None
 settings.max_redirects = 30
+settings.allow_unicode = True
 
 #: Use socket.setdefaulttimeout() as fallback?
 settings.timeout_fallback = True
diff --git a/requests/models.py b/requests/models.py
index 26436892..d3483149 100644
--- a/requests/models.py
+++ b/requests/models.py
@@ -453,12 +453,8 @@ class Response(object):
                     pass
 
             # Decode unicode content.
-            try:
+            if settings.allow_unicode:
                 self._content = get_unicode_from_response(self)
-            # Don't trust this stuff.
-            except UserWarning, e:
-                print e
-
 
             return self._content