python requests.get() returns improperly decoded text instead of UTF-8?

Question

When the content-type of the server is \'Content-Type:text/html\', requests.get() returns improperly encoded data.

However, if

Answer 1

After getting response, take response.content instead of response.text and that will be of encoding utf-8.

response = requests.get(download_link, auth=(myUsername, myPassword),  headers={'User-Agent': 'Mozilla'})
print (response.encoding)
if response.status_code is 200:
    body = response.content
else:
    print ("Unable to get response with Code : %d " % (response.status_code))