diff --git a/ctx.go b/ctx.go
index b372f7d4..acd9d11e 100644
--- a/ctx.go
+++ b/ctx.go
@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@ package goproxy
 
 import (
 	"crypto/tls"
+	"mime"
 	"net/http"
-	"regexp"
 )
 
 // ProxyCtx is the Proxy context, contains useful information about every request. It is passed to
@@ -79,15 +79,15 @@ func (ctx *ProxyCtx) Warnf(msg string, argv ...interface{}) {
 	ctx.printf("WARN: "+msg, argv...)
 }
 
-var charsetFinder = regexp.MustCompile("charset=([^ ;]*)")
-
 // Will try to infer the character set of the request from the headers.
 // Returns the empty string if we don't know which character set it used.
 // Currently it will look for charset=<charset> in the Content-Type header of the request.
 func (ctx *ProxyCtx) Charset() string {
-	charsets := charsetFinder.FindStringSubmatch(ctx.Resp.Header.Get("Content-Type"))
-	if charsets == nil {
-		return ""
+	contentType := ctx.Resp.Header.Get("Content-Type")
+	if _, params, err := mime.ParseMediaType(contentType); err == nil {
+		if cs, ok := params["charset"]; ok {
+			return cs
+		}
 	}
-	return charsets[1]
+	return ""
 }
diff --git a/ext/go.mod b/ext/go.mod
index fb5fb998..9c7d3945 100644
--- a/ext/go.mod
+++ b/ext/go.mod
@@ -4,10 +4,6 @@ go 1.20
 
 require (
 	github.com/elazarl/goproxy v0.0.0-20241217120900-7711dfa3811c
-	github.com/rogpeppe/go-charset v0.0.0-20190617161244-0dc95cdf6f31
-)
-
-require (
-	golang.org/x/net v0.33.0 // indirect
-	golang.org/x/text v0.21.0 // indirect
+	golang.org/x/net v0.33.0
+	golang.org/x/text v0.21.0
 )
diff --git a/ext/go.sum b/ext/go.sum
index 88684d1d..b9cadd46 100644
--- a/ext/go.sum
+++ b/ext/go.sum
@@ -1,7 +1,5 @@
 github.com/elazarl/goproxy v0.0.0-20241217120900-7711dfa3811c h1:yWAGp1CjD1mQGLUsADqPn5s1n2AkGAX33XLDUgoXzyo=
 github.com/elazarl/goproxy v0.0.0-20241217120900-7711dfa3811c/go.mod h1:P73liMk9TZCyF9fXG/RyMeSizmATvpvy3ZS61/1eXn4=
-github.com/rogpeppe/go-charset v0.0.0-20190617161244-0dc95cdf6f31 h1:DE4LcMKyqAVa6a0CGmVxANbnVb7stzMmPkQiieyNmfQ=
-github.com/rogpeppe/go-charset v0.0.0-20190617161244-0dc95cdf6f31/go.mod h1:qgYeAmZ5ZIpBWTGllZSQnw97Dj+woV0toclVaRGI8pc=
 golang.org/x/net v0.33.0 h1:74SYHlV8BIgHIFC/LrYkOGIwL19eTYXQ5wc6TBuO36I=
 golang.org/x/net v0.33.0/go.mod h1:HXLR5J+9DxmrqMwG9qjGCxZ+zKXxBru04zlTvWlWuN4=
 golang.org/x/text v0.21.0 h1:zyQAAkrwaneQ066sspRyJaG9VNi/YJ1NfzcGB3hZ/qo=
diff --git a/ext/html/html.go b/ext/html/html.go
index ca3128ae..cebae05a 100644
--- a/ext/html/html.go
+++ b/ext/html/html.go
@@ -9,26 +9,11 @@ import (
 	"strings"
 
 	"github.com/elazarl/goproxy"
-	"github.com/rogpeppe/go-charset/charset"
-	_ "github.com/rogpeppe/go-charset/data"
+	"golang.org/x/net/html/charset"
+	"golang.org/x/text/transform"
 )
 
-var IsHtml goproxy.RespCondition = goproxy.ContentTypeIs("text/html")
-
-var IsCss goproxy.RespCondition = goproxy.ContentTypeIs("text/css")
-
-var IsJavaScript goproxy.RespCondition = goproxy.ContentTypeIs("text/javascript",
-	"application/javascript")
-
-var IsJson goproxy.RespCondition = goproxy.ContentTypeIs("text/json")
-
-var IsXml goproxy.RespCondition = goproxy.ContentTypeIs("text/xml")
-
-var IsWebRelatedText goproxy.RespCondition = goproxy.ContentTypeIs("text/html",
-	"text/css",
-	"text/javascript", "application/javascript",
-	"text/xml",
-	"text/json")
+var IsHtml = goproxy.ContentTypeIs("text/html")
 
 // HandleString will receive a function that filters a string, and will convert the
 // request body to a utf8 string, according to the charset specified in the Content-Type
@@ -58,21 +43,16 @@ func HandleStringReader(f func(r io.Reader, ctx *goproxy.ProxyCtx) io.Reader) go
 		}
 
 		if strings.ToLower(charsetName) != "utf-8" {
-			r, err := charset.NewReader(charsetName, resp.Body)
-			if err != nil {
-				ctx.Warnf("Cannot convert from %v to utf-8: %v", charsetName, err)
+			tr, _ := charset.Lookup(charsetName)
+			if tr == nil {
+				ctx.Warnf("Cannot convert from %s to utf-8: not found", charsetName)
 				return resp
 			}
-			tr, err := charset.TranslatorTo(charsetName)
-			if err != nil {
-				ctx.Warnf("Can't translate to %v from utf-8: %v", charsetName, err)
-				return resp
-			}
-			if err != nil {
-				ctx.Warnf("Cannot translate to %v: %v", charsetName, err)
-				return resp
-			}
-			newr := charset.NewTranslatingReader(f(r, ctx), tr)
+
+			// Pass UTF-8 data to the callback f() function and convert its
+			// result back to the original encoding
+			r := transform.NewReader(resp.Body, tr.NewDecoder())
+			newr := transform.NewReader(f(r, ctx), tr.NewEncoder())
 			resp.Body = &readFirstCloseBoth{io.NopCloser(newr), resp.Body}
 		} else {
 			//no translation is needed, already at utf-8
diff --git a/ext/html/html_test.go b/ext/html/html_test.go
index 0949c1ca..cb990ce4 100644
--- a/ext/html/html_test.go
+++ b/ext/html/html_test.go
@@ -14,7 +14,6 @@ type ConstantServer int
 
 func (s ConstantServer) ServeHTTP(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
 	w.Header().Set("Content-Type", "text/plain; charset=iso-8859-8")
-	//w.Header().Set("Content-Type","text/plain; charset=cp-1255")
 	w.Write([]byte{0xe3, 0xf3})
 }