diff --git a/django_mailbox/tests/messages/email_issue_82.eml b/django_mailbox/tests/messages/email_issue_82.eml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..13cb98c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/django_mailbox/tests/messages/email_issue_82.eml
@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+From nobody Wed Mar 30 12:15:10 2016
+Delivered-To: info@test.org
+X-Orig-To: info@test.org
+MIME-Version: 1.0
+Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01D18A74.C17A9D2D"
+Subject: character issue.
+Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2016 08:10:23 -0300
+Message-ID: <2A4988FCD265FE438FD0848B3ED91ABA2C0AAF3E@issue>
+From: "Me" <me@test.org>
+To: <info@test.org>
+
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diff --git a/django_mailbox/tests/test_process_email.py b/django_mailbox/tests/test_process_email.py
index e3d4778..538654c 100644
--- a/django_mailbox/tests/test_process_email.py
+++ b/django_mailbox/tests/test_process_email.py
@@ -140,6 +140,22 @@ class TestProcessEmail(EmailMessageTestCase):
             actual_body
         )
 
+    def test_message_issue_82(self):
+        """ Ensure that we properly handle incorrectly encoded messages
+
+        ``message_with_utf8_char.eml``'s primary text payload is marked
+        as being iso-8859-1 data, but actually contains UTF-8 bytes.
+
+        """
+        email_object = self._get_email_object('email_issue_82.eml')
+        success = True
+        try:
+            msg = self.mailbox.process_incoming_message(email_object)
+        except ValueError:
+            success = False
+
+        self.assertEqual(True, success)
+
     def test_message_with_misplaced_utf8_content(self):
         """ Ensure that we properly handle incorrectly encoded messages