diff --git a/plugins/svn4idea/src/org/jetbrains/idea/svn/SvnContentRevision.java b/plugins/svn4idea/src/org/jetbrains/idea/svn/SvnContentRevision.java
index 34dceaffd3e7..bc6209fe905f 100644
--- a/plugins/svn4idea/src/org/jetbrains/idea/svn/SvnContentRevision.java
+++ b/plugins/svn4idea/src/org/jetbrains/idea/svn/SvnContentRevision.java
@@ -30,13 +30,13 @@ import org.jetbrains.annotations.NonNls;
 import org.jetbrains.annotations.NotNull;
 import org.jetbrains.annotations.Nullable;
 import org.tmatesoft.svn.core.SVNException;
-import org.tmatesoft.svn.core.wc.SVNInfo;
 import org.tmatesoft.svn.core.wc.SVNRevision;
 import org.tmatesoft.svn.core.wc.SVNWCClient;
 
 import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
 import java.io.File;
 import java.io.IOException;
+import java.nio.charset.Charset;
 
 /**
  * @author yole
@@ -118,19 +118,21 @@ public class SvnContentRevision implements ContentRevision, MarkerVcsContentRevi
       buffer.close();
     }
     catch (SVNException e) {
-      try {
+      /*try {
         final SVNInfo info = wcClient.doInfo(file, SVNRevision.UNDEFINED);
         //todo
       }
       catch (SVNException e1) {
         throw new VcsException(e);
-      }
+      }*/
       throw new VcsException(e);
     }
     catch (IOException e) {
       throw new VcsException(e);
     }
-    return buffer.toByteArray();
+    final byte[] bytes = buffer.toByteArray();
+    final Charset charset = myFile.getCharset();
+    return charset == null ? bytes : SvnUtil.decode(charset, bytes);
   }
 
   @NotNull
diff --git a/plugins/svn4idea/src/org/jetbrains/idea/svn/SvnUtil.java b/plugins/svn4idea/src/org/jetbrains/idea/svn/SvnUtil.java
index 3892bc875486..457317422936 100644
--- a/plugins/svn4idea/src/org/jetbrains/idea/svn/SvnUtil.java
+++ b/plugins/svn4idea/src/org/jetbrains/idea/svn/SvnUtil.java
@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ import org.tmatesoft.svn.core.wc2.SvnOperationFactory;
 
 import java.io.File;
 import java.nio.ByteBuffer;
+import java.nio.CharBuffer;
 import java.nio.charset.Charset;
 import java.util.*;
 
@@ -683,7 +684,9 @@ public class SvnUtil {
 
   public static byte[] decode(final Charset charset, final byte[] buffer) {
     if (charset != null && ! CharsetToolkit.UTF8_CHARSET.equals(charset)) {
-      return CharsetToolkit.UTF8_CHARSET.encode(charset.decode(ByteBuffer.wrap(buffer))).array();
+      final CharBuffer decoded = charset.decode(ByteBuffer.wrap(buffer));
+      final ByteBuffer byteBuffer = CharsetToolkit.UTF8_CHARSET.encode(decoded);
+      return ArrayUtil.realloc(byteBuffer.array(), byteBuffer.remaining());
     }
     return buffer;
   }