diff -u -r jakarta-jmeter-2.0.3-orig/src/components/org/apache/jmeter/assertions/ResponseAssertion.java jakarta-jmeter-2.0.3-src/src/components/org/apache/jmeter/assertions/ResponseAssertion.java
--- jakarta-jmeter-2.0.3-orig/src/components/org/apache/jmeter/assertions/ResponseAssertion.java	2004-06-11 13:04:46.000000000 +0200
+++ jakarta-jmeter-2.0.3-src/src/components/org/apache/jmeter/assertions/ResponseAssertion.java	2005-10-18 13:35:03.000000000 +0200
@@ -263,7 +263,8 @@
       // What are we testing against?
       if (ResponseAssertion.RESPONSE_DATA.equals(getTestField()))
       {
-		toCheck = new StringBuffer(response.getResponseHeaders()).append(new String(response.responseDataAsBA())).toString();
+
+		toCheck = new StringBuffer(response.getResponseHeaders()).append(response.responseDataAsString()).toString();
       }
       else if (ResponseAssertion.RESPONSE_CODE.equals(getTestField()))
       {
diff -u -r jakarta-jmeter-2.0.3-orig/src/core/org/apache/jmeter/samplers/SampleResult.java jakarta-jmeter-2.0.3-src/src/core/org/apache/jmeter/samplers/SampleResult.java
--- jakarta-jmeter-2.0.3-orig/src/core/org/apache/jmeter/samplers/SampleResult.java	2005-03-12 11:38:40.000000000 +0100
+++ jakarta-jmeter-2.0.3-src/src/core/org/apache/jmeter/samplers/SampleResult.java	2005-10-18 13:21:31.000000000 +0200
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
 
 import java.io.Serializable;
 import java.io.StringWriter;
+import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
 import java.net.URL;
 import java.util.ArrayList;
 import java.util.HashSet;
@@ -369,6 +370,39 @@
 	{
 		return responseData == null ? EMPTY_BA : responseData;
 	}
+	
+	/**
+	 * Convenience method to get responseData String that
+	 * cares character set of response.
+	 * 
+	 * @return the responseData. If responseData is null
+	 * then an empty String is returned
+	 * 
+	 */
+	public String responseDataAsString()
+	{
+       String str = null;
+ 	   if ( getContentType()!=null 
+ 			   && getContentType().startsWith("text/") ){
+ 		   if ( log.isDebugEnabled()){
+ 			   log.debug("attempting to use charset '"+getDataEncoding()+"' for contentType '"+getContentType()+"' of "+getURL());
+ 		   }
+ 		   try{
+ 		      // use supplied encoding from ContentType
+ 		      str = new String(responseDataAsBA(),getDataEncoding());
+ 		   }catch(UnsupportedEncodingException ex){
+ 			   if ( log.isErrorEnabled()){
+ 				   log.error("Error "+ex.getMessage()+" while converting charset '"+getDataEncoding()+"' for contentType '"+getContentType()+"' of "+getURL()+". Falling back to system encoding.");
+ 			   }
+ 		   }
+ 	   }
+ 	   
+ 	   if (str == null) {
+ 		   // fallback to old behaviour
+ 		   str = new String(responseDataAsBA());
+ 	   }
+ 	   return str;
+	}
 
     public void setSamplerData(String s)
     {
diff -u -r jakarta-jmeter-2.0.3-orig/src/functions/org/apache/jmeter/functions/RegexFunction.java jakarta-jmeter-2.0.3-src/src/functions/org/apache/jmeter/functions/RegexFunction.java
--- jakarta-jmeter-2.0.3-orig/src/functions/org/apache/jmeter/functions/RegexFunction.java	2004-12-11 12:12:18.000000000 +0100
+++ jakarta-jmeter-2.0.3-src/src/functions/org/apache/jmeter/functions/RegexFunction.java	2005-10-18 13:24:42.000000000 +0200
@@ -143,7 +143,7 @@
         try
         {
             PatternMatcher matcher = (PatternMatcher) localMatcher.get();
-            String responseText = new String(previousResult.getResponseData());
+            String responseText = previousResult.responseDataAsString();
             PatternMatcherInput input = new PatternMatcherInput(responseText);
             while (matcher.contains(input, searchPattern))
             {
diff -u -r jakarta-jmeter-2.0.3-orig/src/protocol/http/org/apache/jmeter/protocol/http/sampler/HTTPSampler.java jakarta-jmeter-2.0.3-src/src/protocol/http/org/apache/jmeter/protocol/http/sampler/HTTPSampler.java
--- jakarta-jmeter-2.0.3-orig/src/protocol/http/org/apache/jmeter/protocol/http/sampler/HTTPSampler.java	2004-10-03 16:23:30.000000000 +0200
+++ jakarta-jmeter-2.0.3-src/src/protocol/http/org/apache/jmeter/protocol/http/sampler/HTTPSampler.java	2005-10-18 13:32:12.000000000 +0200
@@ -675,6 +675,9 @@
         totalRes.setResponseMessage(lastRes.getResponseMessage());
         totalRes.setDataType(lastRes.getDataType());
         totalRes.setResponseHeaders(lastRes.getResponseHeaders());
+        totalRes.setContentType(lastRes.getContentType());
+        totalRes.setDataEncoding(lastRes.getDataEncoding());
+
         return totalRes;
     }