diff --git a/app/models/mail_handler.rb b/app/models/mail_handler.rb
old mode 100644
new mode 100755
index 86ad4eb27..579731943
--- a/app/models/mail_handler.rb
+++ b/app/models/mail_handler.rb
@@ -578,7 +578,7 @@ class MailHandler < ActionMailer::Base
     end
 
     unless delimiters.empty?
-      regex = Regexp.new("^[> ]*(#{ Regexp.union(delimiters) })\s*[\r\n].*", Regexp::MULTILINE)
+      regex = Regexp.new("^[> ]*(#{ Regexp.union(delimiters) })[[:blank:]]*[\r\n].*", Regexp::MULTILINE)
       body = body.gsub(regex, '')
     end
     body.strip
diff --git a/test/fixtures/mail_handler/ticket_on_given_project.eml b/test/fixtures/mail_handler/ticket_on_given_project.eml
index 7c0fe3208..e311dfbb7 100644
--- a/test/fixtures/mail_handler/ticket_on_given_project.eml
+++ b/test/fixtures/mail_handler/ticket_on_given_project.eml
@@ -10,9 +10,9 @@ Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2008 12:28:07 +0200
 MIME-Version: 1.0
 Content-Type: text/plain;
 	format=flowed;
-	charset="iso-8859-1";
+	charset="utf-8";
 	reply-type=original
-Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
+Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
 X-Priority: 3
 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2869
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ BREAK
 
 This paragraph is between delimiters.
 
----
+---=C2=A0
 
 This paragraph is after the delimiter so it shouldn't appear.
 
diff --git a/test/unit/mail_handler_test.rb b/test/unit/mail_handler_test.rb
index cbfcfa7ad..d5ca795ef 100644
--- a/test/unit/mail_handler_test.rb
+++ b/test/unit/mail_handler_test.rb
@@ -963,7 +963,7 @@ class MailHandlerTest < ActiveSupport::TestCase
       assert_issue_created(issue)
       assert issue.description.include?('This paragraph is before delimiters')
       assert issue.description.include?('--- This line starts with a delimiter')
-      assert !issue.description.match(/^---$/)
+      assert !issue.description.match(/^---#{"\u00A0"}$/)
       assert !issue.description.include?('This paragraph is after the delimiter')
     end
   end