diff --git a/routeros_api/api_structure.py b/routeros_api/api_structure.py
index 7899956..74a2651 100644
--- a/routeros_api/api_structure.py
+++ b/routeros_api/api_structure.py
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 import datetime
 import ipaddress
 import re
+import cchardet as chardet
 
 
 class Field(object):
@@ -28,6 +29,8 @@ def get_mikrotik_value(self, string):
         return string.encode()
 
     def get_python_value(self, bytes):
+        if bytes:
+            return bytes.decode(chardet.detect(bytes)['encoding'])
         return bytes.decode()
 
 
diff --git a/tests/test_resource.py b/tests/test_resource.py
index 90ada5d..a8d4e59 100644
--- a/tests/test_resource.py
+++ b/tests/test_resource.py
@@ -68,3 +68,16 @@ def test_boolean_resource_set(self):
         communicator.call.assert_called_with(
             '/boolean/', 'set', arguments={'boolean': b'yes'}, queries={},
             additional_queries=())
+
+        
+    def test_unicode_decode_error(self):
+        string = structure.StringField
+        output = string.get_python_value(string,bytes=b'\xc2')
+        self.assertEqual(output, 'Â')
+        
+        
+    
+    def test_blank_decode_byte(self):
+        string = structure.StringField
+        output = string.get_python_value(string,bytes=b'')
+        self.assertEqual(output, '')