diff --git a/mercurial/hgweb/hgwebdir_mod.py b/mercurial/hgweb/hgwebdir_mod.py
--- a/mercurial/hgweb/hgwebdir_mod.py
+++ b/mercurial/hgweb/hgwebdir_mod.py
@@ -422,8 +422,10 @@
                 if real:
                     # Re-parse the WSGI environment to take into account our
                     # repository path component.
+                    uenv = {k.decode('latin1'): v for k, v in
+                            req.rawenv.iteritems()}
                     req = requestmod.parserequestfromenv(
-                        req.rawenv, reponame=virtualrepo,
+                        uenv, reponame=virtualrepo,
                         altbaseurl=self.ui.config('web', 'baseurl'))
                     try:
                         # ensure caller gets private copy of ui