diff --git a/django/core/handlers/wsgi.py b/django/core/handlers/wsgi.py
index 4c07105..976bba7 100644
--- a/django/core/handlers/wsgi.py
+++ b/django/core/handlers/wsgi.py
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ from django.core.handlers import base
 from django.core.urlresolvers import set_script_prefix
 from django.utils import datastructures
 from django.utils.encoding import force_str, force_text, iri_to_uri
+from django.utils import six
 
 logger = logging.getLogger('django.request')
 
@@ -125,10 +126,22 @@ class LimitedStream(object):
         return line
 
 
+def fix_path_info(path):
+    """
+    On Python 3, wsgiref.WSGIRequestHandler is unconditionally decoding the
+    request path with 'iso-8859-1' encoding. We have to fix this.
+    See https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/19468 and
+    http://bugs.python.org/issue16679
+    """
+    return path.encode('iso-8859-1').decode('utf-8')
+
 class WSGIRequest(http.HttpRequest):
     def __init__(self, environ):
         script_name = base.get_script_name(environ)
-        path_info = force_text(environ.get('PATH_INFO', '/'))
+        if six.PY3:
+            path_info = fix_path_info(environ.get('PATH_INFO', '/'))
+        else:
+            path_info = force_text(environ.get('PATH_INFO', '/'))
         if not path_info or path_info == script_name:
             # Sometimes PATH_INFO exists, but is empty (e.g. accessing
             # the SCRIPT_NAME URL without a trailing slash). We really need to
diff --git a/tests/regressiontests/requests/tests.py b/tests/regressiontests/requests/tests.py
index adf824d..7e67b32 100644
--- a/tests/regressiontests/requests/tests.py
+++ b/tests/regressiontests/requests/tests.py
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ from django.core.handlers.wsgi import WSGIRequest, LimitedStream
 from django.http import HttpRequest, HttpResponse, parse_cookie, build_request_repr, UnreadablePostError
 from django.test.client import FakePayload
 from django.test.utils import override_settings, str_prefix
+from django.utils import six
 from django.utils import unittest
 from django.utils.http import cookie_date, urlencode
 from django.utils.timezone import utc
@@ -57,6 +58,12 @@ class RequestsTests(unittest.TestCase):
         self.assertEqual(build_request_repr(request, path_override='/otherpath/', GET_override={'a': 'b'}, POST_override={'c': 'd'}, COOKIES_override={'e': 'f'}, META_override={'g': 'h'}),
                          str_prefix("<WSGIRequest\npath:/otherpath/,\nGET:{%(_)s'a': %(_)s'b'},\nPOST:{%(_)s'c': %(_)s'd'},\nCOOKIES:{%(_)s'e': %(_)s'f'},\nMETA:{%(_)s'g': %(_)s'h'}>"))
 
+    @unittest.skipUnless(six.PY3, "PATH_INFO decoding only happens on Python 3")
+    def test_wsgirequest_path_info(self):
+        """Testing fix for #19468"""
+        request = WSGIRequest({'PATH_INFO': '/سلام/', 'REQUEST_METHOD': 'get', 'wsgi.input': BytesIO(b'')})
+        self.assertEqual(request.path, "/سلام/")
+
     def test_parse_cookie(self):
         self.assertEqual(parse_cookie('invalid@key=true'), {})