diff --git a/src/main/java/com/dabsquared/gitlabjenkins/webhook/ActionResolver.java b/src/main/java/com/dabsquared/gitlabjenkins/webhook/ActionResolver.java
index 79e826c..3109675 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/dabsquared/gitlabjenkins/webhook/ActionResolver.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/dabsquared/gitlabjenkins/webhook/ActionResolver.java
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ import org.kohsuke.stapler.StaplerRequest;
 import org.kohsuke.stapler.StaplerResponse;
 
 import java.io.IOException;
+import java.nio.charset.Charset;
 import java.util.Iterator;
 import java.util.logging.Level;
 import java.util.logging.Logger;
@@ -29,6 +30,7 @@ import java.util.regex.Matcher;
 import java.util.regex.Pattern;
 
 import static com.dabsquared.gitlabjenkins.util.LoggerUtil.toArray;
+import static java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.UTF_8;
 
 /**
  * @author Robin Müller
@@ -103,7 +105,8 @@ public class ActionResolver {
     private String getRequestBody(StaplerRequest request) {
         String requestBody;
         try {
-            requestBody = IOUtils.toString(request.getInputStream());
+            Charset charset = request.getCharacterEncoding() == null ?  UTF_8 : Charset.forName(request.getCharacterEncoding());
+            requestBody = IOUtils.toString(request.getInputStream(), charset);
         } catch (IOException e) {
             throw HttpResponses.error(500, "Failed to read request body");
         }