diff --git a/skel_common/readme_changelog.txt b/skel_common/readme_changelog.txt
index 82cd0b5..eb2399e 100644
--- a/skel_common/readme_changelog.txt
+++ b/skel_common/readme_changelog.txt
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ Changelog
 ???:
 - Added LF to CR-LF conversion for *.xml.append, *.xml, and *.txt
 - Added a Validate warning for text files with LF line endings
+- Fixed data loss when decoding Windows-1252 text with accented characters
 
 1.0:
 - Changed mod list to a table with checkboxes
diff --git a/src/main/java/net/vhati/modmanager/core/ModUtilities.java b/src/main/java/net/vhati/modmanager/core/ModUtilities.java
index c72eef0..45d9c15 100644
--- a/src/main/java/net/vhati/modmanager/core/ModUtilities.java
+++ b/src/main/java/net/vhati/modmanager/core/ModUtilities.java
@@ -93,6 +93,8 @@ public class ModUtilities {
 			Map<String,Exception> errorMap = new LinkedHashMap<String,Exception>();
 			for ( String guess : new String[] {"UTF-8", "windows-1252"} ) {
 				try {
+					byteBuffer.rewind();
+					byteBuffer.limit( allBytes.length );
 					CharsetDecoder decoder = Charset.forName( guess ).newDecoder();
 					result = decoder.decode( byteBuffer ).toString();
 					encoding = guess;