diff --git a/requests/config.py b/requests/config.py
index 5a7fcd3f..794109c5 100644
--- a/requests/config.py
+++ b/requests/config.py
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ settings.proxies = None
 settings.verbose = None
 settings.timeout = None
 settings.max_redirects = 30
-settings.allow_unicode = True
+settings.decode_unicode = True
 
 #: Use socket.setdefaulttimeout() as fallback?
 settings.timeout_fallback = True
diff --git a/requests/models.py b/requests/models.py
index 51524608..db8a60e3 100644
--- a/requests/models.py
+++ b/requests/models.py
@@ -453,7 +453,7 @@ class Response(object):
                     pass
 
             # Decode unicode content.
-            if settings.allow_unicode:
+            if settings.decode_unicode:
                 self._content = get_unicode_from_response(self)
 
             return self._content