Asked this question on SO: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21572806/camel-how-to-predict-http-charchester-encoding-when-doing-conversion/21692128?noredirect=1#comment33112216_21692128 Check this: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CAMEL-7217 If fixed in 2.13.1 - upgrade camel version used.