Index: src/OFTCPSocket+SOCKS5.m
==================================================================
--- src/OFTCPSocket+SOCKS5.m
+++ src/OFTCPSocket+SOCKS5.m
@@ -51,16 +51,13 @@
 	[self setWriteBufferEnabled: YES];
 
 	/* CONNECT request */
 	[self writeBuffer: request
 		   length: 4];
-	[self writeInt8:
-	    [host lengthOfBytesUsingEncoding: OF_STRING_ENCODING_NATIVE]];
-	[self writeBuffer: [host cStringUsingEncoding:
-			       OF_STRING_ENCODING_NATIVE]
-		   length: [host lengthOfBytesUsingEncoding:
-			       OF_STRING_ENCODING_NATIVE]];
+	[self writeInt8: [host UTF8StringLength]];
+	[self writeBuffer: [host UTF8String]
+		   length: [host UTF8StringLength]];
 	[self writeBigEndianInt16: port];
 
 	[self flushWriteBuffer];
 	[self setWriteBufferEnabled: oldWriteBufferEnabled];