diff --git a/locust/contrib/fasthttp.py b/locust/contrib/fasthttp.py
index 192d354756..9887b06297 100644
--- a/locust/contrib/fasthttp.py
+++ b/locust/contrib/fasthttp.py
@@ -22,6 +22,9 @@
 from geventhttpclient.response import HTTPConnectionClosed, HTTPSocketPoolResponse
 from geventhttpclient.header import Headers
 
+# borrow requests's content-type header parsing
+from requests.utils import get_encoding_from_headers
+
 from locust.user import User
 from locust.exception import LocustError, CatchResponseError, ResponseError
 from locust.env import Environment
@@ -460,7 +463,7 @@ def text(self) -> Optional[str]:
             if self.headers is None:
                 self.encoding = "utf-8"
             else:
-                self.encoding = self.headers.get("content-type", "").partition("charset=")[2] or "utf-8"
+                self.encoding = get_encoding_from_headers(self.headers)
         return str(self.content, self.encoding, errors="replace")
 
     @property