diff --git a/httpie/encoding.py b/httpie/encoding.py
index 67bd9472..e781807d 100644
--- a/httpie/encoding.py
+++ b/httpie/encoding.py
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 from typing import Union
 
 from charset_normalizer import from_bytes
-from charset_normalizer.constant import TOO_SMALL_SEQUENCE
 
 UTF8 = 'utf-8'
 
@@ -16,16 +15,14 @@ def detect_encoding(content: ContentBytes) -> str:
     >>> too_short = ']"foo"'
     >>> detected = from_bytes(too_short.encode()).best().encoding
     >>> detected
-    'utf_16_be'
+    'ascii'
     >>> too_short.encode().decode(detected)
-    '崢景漢'
-
+    ']"foo"'
     """
     encoding = UTF8
-    if len(content) > TOO_SMALL_SEQUENCE:
-        match = from_bytes(bytes(content)).best()
-        if match:
-            encoding = match.encoding
+    match = from_bytes(bytes(content)).best()
+    if match:
+        encoding = match.encoding
     return encoding
 
 
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index ef2d5e86..3f7ecbe6 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ dev_require = [
     'wheel',
 ]
 install_requires = [
-    'charset_normalizer>=2.0.0',
+    'charset_normalizer>=2.0.5',
     'defusedxml>=0.6.0',
     'requests[socks]>=2.22.0',
     'Pygments>=2.5.2',
diff --git a/tests/test_encoding.py b/tests/test_encoding.py
index 90cbe24b..af7584e4 100644
--- a/tests/test_encoding.py
+++ b/tests/test_encoding.py
@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@ Various unicode handling related tests.
 """
 import pytest
 import responses
-from charset_normalizer.constant import TOO_SMALL_SEQUENCE
 
 from httpie.cli.constants import PRETTY_MAP
 from httpie.encoding import UTF8
@@ -13,8 +12,7 @@ from .utils import http, HTTP_OK, URL_EXAMPLE, MockEnvironment, StdinBytesIO
 from .fixtures import UNICODE
 
 
-CZECH_TEXT = 'Všichni lidé jsou si rovni. Všichni lidé jsou si rovni.'
-assert len(CZECH_TEXT) > TOO_SMALL_SEQUENCE
+CZECH_TEXT = 'Všichni lidé jsou si rovni.'
 CZECH_TEXT_SPECIFIC_CHARSET = 'windows-1250'
 ENCODINGS = [UTF8, CZECH_TEXT_SPECIFIC_CHARSET]