diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 0cb3fbb..5af20da 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -10,3 +10,4 @@ scrapy_splash.egg-info
 htmlcov
 .hypothesis
 .ipynb_checkpoints
+.pytest_cache
diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index 91b8855..895ce44 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -260,19 +260,8 @@ to set ``meta['splash']['args']`` use ``SplashRequest(..., args=myargs)``.
 
 * ``meta['splash']['magic_response']`` - when set to True and a JSON
   response is received from Splash, several attributes of the response
-  (headers, body, url, status code) are filled using data returned in JSON:
-
-  * response.headers are filled from 'headers' keys;
-  * response.url is set to the value of 'url' key;
-  * response.body is set to the value of 'html' key,
-    or to base64-decoded value of 'body' key;
-  * response.status is set to the value of 'http_status' key.
-    When ``meta['splash']['http_status_from_error_code']`` is True
-    and ``assert(splash:go(..))`` fails with an HTTP error
-    response.status is also set to HTTP error code.
-
-  Original URL, status and headers are available as ``response.real_url``,
-  ``response.splash_response_status`` and ``response.splash_response_headers``.
+  (headers, body, url, status code) are filled using data returned in JSON,
+  for details see Responses section
 
   This option is set to True by default if you use SplashRequest.
   ``render.json`` and ``execute`` endpoints may not have all the necessary
@@ -326,9 +315,15 @@ SplashJsonResponse provide extra features:
 
   * response.headers are filled from 'headers' keys;
   * response.url is set to the value of 'url' key;
-  * response.body is set to the value of 'html' key,
-    or to base64-decoded value of 'body' key;
-  * response.status is set from the value of 'http_status' key.
+  * response.body is set to the value of 'html' key, utf-8 text expected,
+    or to base64-decoded binary value of 'body' key;
+  * response.status is set to the value of 'http_status' key.
+    When ``meta['splash']['http_status_from_error_code']`` is True
+    and ``assert(splash:go(..))`` fails with an HTTP error
+    response.status is also set to HTTP error code.
+
+  Original URL, status and headers are available as ``response.real_url``,
+  ``response.splash_response_status`` and ``response.splash_response_headers``.
 
 When ``response.body`` is updated in SplashJsonResponse
 (either from 'html' or from 'body' keys) familiar ``response.css``
diff --git a/scrapy_splash/response.py b/scrapy_splash/response.py
index e5250c2..64066ef 100644
--- a/scrapy_splash/response.py
+++ b/scrapy_splash/response.py
@@ -176,7 +176,6 @@ def _load_from_json(self):
         # response.body
         if 'body' in self.data:
             self._body = base64.b64decode(self.data['body'])
-            self._cached_ubody = self._body.decode(self.encoding)
         elif 'html' in self.data:
             self._cached_ubody = self.data['html']
             self._body = self._cached_ubody.encode(self.encoding)
diff --git a/tests/test_middleware.py b/tests/test_middleware.py
index 66b79ce..7b7e5fc 100644
--- a/tests/test_middleware.py
+++ b/tests/test_middleware.py
@@ -286,6 +286,22 @@ def test_magic_response():
         if c.name == 'spam':
             assert c.value == 'ham'
 
+    resp_data = {
+        'url': "http://exmaple.com/#id42",
+        'body': base64.b64encode(b'\xad').decode('ascii'),
+        'headers': [
+            {'name': 'Content-Type', 'value': "text/html; charset=cp1251"},
+        ]
+    }
+    resp = TextResponse("http://mysplash.example.com/execute",
+                        headers={b'Content-Type': b'application/json'},
+                        body=json.dumps(resp_data).encode('utf8'))
+
+    try:
+        resp2 = mw.process_response(req, resp, None)
+    except:
+        assert 'process_response raised exception' is None
+
 
 def test_cookies():
     mw = _get_mw()