Merge https://github.com/kennethreitz/requests into develop

README.rst

@@ -73,4 +73,4 @@ Contribute
 #. Send a pull request and bug the maintainer until it gets merged and published. :) Make sure to add yourself to AUTHORS_.
 
 .. _`the repository`: http://github.com/kennethreitz/requests
-.. _AUTHORS: http://github.com/kennethreitz/requests/blob/master/AUTHORS
+.. _AUTHORS: https://github.com/kennethreitz/requests/blob/develop/AUTHORS.rst

requests/models.py

@@ -800,6 +800,12 @@ class Response(object):
         # Decode unicode from given encoding.
         try:
             content = str(self.content, encoding, errors='replace')
+        except LookupError:
+            # A LookupError is raised if the encoding was not found which could
+            # indicate a misspelling or similar mistake.
+            #
+            # So we try blindly encoding.
+            content = str(self.content, errors='replace')
         except (UnicodeError, TypeError):
             pass