diff --git a/modules/paypal/browser.py b/modules/paypal/browser.py
index 70876820..8ae8bcd6 100644
--- a/modules/paypal/browser.py
+++ b/modules/paypal/browser.py
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ class Paypal(BaseBrowser):
     DOMAIN = 'www.paypal.com'
     PROTOCOL = 'https'
     CERTHASH = '36dc457fa47a9c0cec67ce6ac00e4a7a3846a96ed40cabbb8e1504ed8b332108'
-    ENCODING = 'UTF-8'  # useful for CSV
+    ENCODING = 'UTF-8'
     PAGES = {
         '/cgi-bin/\?cmd=_login-run$':             LoginPage,
         '/cgi-bin/\?cmd=_login-submit.+$':        LoginPage,  # wrong login
diff --git a/modules/paypal/pages.py b/modules/paypal/pages.py
index 2c39e505..7d48434e 100644
--- a/modules/paypal/pages.py
+++ b/modules/paypal/pages.py
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ import datetime
 
 from weboob.tools.browser import BasePage, BrokenPageError
 from weboob.tools.parsers.csvparser import CsvParser
+from weboob.tools.misc import to_unicode
 from weboob.capabilities.bank import Account, Transaction
 from weboob.tools.capabilities.bank.transactions import FrenchTransaction
 
@@ -201,5 +202,12 @@ class HistoryParser(CsvParser):
     HEADER = True
     FMTPARAMS = {'skipinitialspace': True}
 
+    def decode_row(self, row, encoding):
+        """
+        PayPal returns different encodings (latin-1 and utf-8 are know ones)
+        """
+        return [to_unicode(cell) for cell in row]
+
+
 class UselessPage(BasePage):
     pass