diff --git a/src/controller/strings.rs b/src/controller/strings.rs
index 9bc01fc0..ffab6e5f 100644
--- a/src/controller/strings.rs
+++ b/src/controller/strings.rs
@@ -33,7 +33,12 @@ pub fn convert_to_utf8(bytes: Vec<u8>) -> String {
         return String::new();
     }
 
-    let (encoding, _confidence, _language) = chardet::detect(&bytes);
+    let (encoding, confidence, _language) = chardet::detect(&bytes);
+    let encoding = if confidence < 0.75 {
+        "iso-8859-1".to_string() // yeah, well.
+    } else {
+        encoding
+    };
     if let Some(coder) = encoding_from_whatwg_label(chardet::charset2encoding(&encoding)) {
         if let Ok(utf8string) = coder.decode(&bytes, DecoderTrap::Replace) {
             return utf8string.to_string();
@@ -74,4 +79,22 @@ mod tests {
         let converted = convert_to_utf8(bytes.clone());
         assert_eq!(converted, utf8_version);
     }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn windows1252_is_decoded() {
+        // windows-1252 is identical to iso-8859-1. IDEK.
+        let bytes: Vec<u8> = vec![
+            0xc0, 0xc1, 0xc2, 0xc3, 0xc4, 0xc5, 0xc6, 0xc7, 0xc8, 0xc9, 0xca, 0xcb, 0xcc, 0xcd,
+            0xce, 0xcf, 0xd0, 0xd1, 0xd2, 0xd3, 0xd4, 0xd5, 0xd6, 0xd7, 0xd8, 0xd9, 0xda, 0xdb,
+            0xdc, 0xdd, 0xde, 0xdf, 0xe0, 0xe1, 0xe2, 0xe3, 0xe4, 0xe5, 0xe6, 0xe7, 0xe8, 0xe9,
+            0xea, 0xeb, 0xec, 0xed, 0xee, 0xef, 0xf0, 0xf1, 0xf2, 0xf3, 0xf4, 0xf5, 0xf6, 0xf7,
+            0xf8, 0xf9, 0xfa, 0xfb, 0xfc, 0xfd, 0xfe, 0xff,
+        ];
+        let utf8_version =
+            "ÀÁÂÃÄÅÆÇÈÉÊËÌÍÎÏÐÑÒÓÔÕÖ×ØÙÚÛÜÝÞßàáâãäåæçèéêëìíîïðñòóôõö÷øùúûüýþÿ".to_string();
+        assert!(String::from_utf8(bytes.clone()).is_err());
+        let converted = convert_to_utf8(bytes.clone());
+        assert_eq!(converted.len(), utf8_version.len());
+        assert_eq!(converted, utf8_version);
+    }
 }