diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index dfc1cdc..b1646e0 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 
     <groupId>org.bonitasoft.connectors</groupId>
     <artifactId>bonita-connector-rest</artifactId>
-    <version>1.0.9-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>1.0.10-SNAPSHOT</version>
 
     <name>Bonita Rest Connector</name>
     <description>Rest Connector for Bonita</description>
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/bonitasoft/connectors/rest/RESTConnector.java b/src/main/java/org/bonitasoft/connectors/rest/RESTConnector.java
index 9836453..2f2d057 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/bonitasoft/connectors/rest/RESTConnector.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/bonitasoft/connectors/rest/RESTConnector.java
@@ -100,6 +100,11 @@ public class RESTConnector extends AbstractRESTConnectorImpl {
      * The class logger
      */
     private static final Logger LOGGER = Logger.getLogger(RESTConnector.class.getName());
+    /**
+     * Forces the character encoding of the HTTP response body to the default JVM Charset if no Charset is defined in the response header.
+     * If this property is not set, the ISO-8859-1 Charset is used as fallback, as specified in the specification.
+     */
+    static final String DEFAULT_JVM_CHARSET_FALLBACK_PROPERTY = "org.bonitasoft.connectors.rest.response.fallbackToJVMCharset";
 
     @Override
     public void validateInputParameters() throws ConnectorValidationException {
@@ -415,7 +420,8 @@ private void setOutputs(final HttpResponse response, Request request) throws IOE
     }
 
     private void parseResponse(final HttpEntity entity) throws IOException {
-        String stringContent = EntityUtils.toString(entity, Charset.defaultCharset());
+        boolean fallbackToDefaultCharset = Boolean.parseBoolean(System.getProperty(DEFAULT_JVM_CHARSET_FALLBACK_PROPERTY));
+        String stringContent = EntityUtils.toString(entity,fallbackToDefaultCharset ? Charset.defaultCharset() : null);
         final String bodyResponse = stringContent != null ? stringContent.trim() : "";
         setBody(bodyResponse);
         setBody(Collections.<String, Object> emptyMap());
diff --git a/src/test/java/org/bonitasoft/connectors/rest/RESTConnectorTest.java b/src/test/java/org/bonitasoft/connectors/rest/RESTConnectorTest.java
index 614c107..52c6a14 100644
--- a/src/test/java/org/bonitasoft/connectors/rest/RESTConnectorTest.java
+++ b/src/test/java/org/bonitasoft/connectors/rest/RESTConnectorTest.java
@@ -24,12 +24,10 @@
 import static com.github.tomakehurst.wiremock.client.WireMock.stubFor;
 import static com.github.tomakehurst.wiremock.client.WireMock.urlEqualTo;
 import static com.google.common.collect.Lists.newArrayList;
-import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
-import static org.junit.Assert.assertNotNull;
-import static org.junit.Assert.assertNull;
-import static org.junit.Assert.assertTrue;
+import static org.junit.Assert.*;
 
 import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
+import java.nio.charset.Charset;
 import java.time.Instant;
 import java.time.OffsetDateTime;
 import java.time.ZoneOffset;
@@ -42,6 +40,7 @@
 import org.bonitasoft.connectors.rest.model.AuthorizationType;
 import org.bonitasoft.engine.connector.ConnectorException;
 import org.bonitasoft.engine.exception.BonitaException;
+import org.junit.After;
 import org.junit.BeforeClass;
 import org.junit.Rule;
 import org.junit.Test;
@@ -56,6 +55,7 @@
 public class RESTConnectorTest extends AcceptanceTestBase {
 
     private static final int NB_OUTPUTS = 5;
+    
     //WireMock
     /**
      * All HTTP static strings used by WireMock to do tests
@@ -193,6 +193,11 @@ public static final void initValues() {
         HEADERS_ERROR.add(header3);
         HEADERS_ERROR.add(header4);
     }
+    
+    @After
+    public void resetSystemProperies() throws Exception {
+        System.setProperty(RESTConnector.DEFAULT_JVM_CHARSET_FALLBACK_PROPERTY, "");
+    }
 
     /**
      * Build a request parameters set based on the given arguments
@@ -709,6 +714,31 @@ public void iso88591CharsetResponse() throws BonitaException, UnsupportedEncodin
         assertEquals("le text reçu a été encodé en ISO-8859-1", output.get(RESTConnector.BODY_AS_STRING_OUTPUT_PARAMETER));
     }
     
+    @Test
+    public void useISO88591CharsetWhenNoContentType() throws BonitaException, UnsupportedEncodingException {
+        stubFor(post(urlEqualTo("/"))
+                .withHeader(WM_CONTENT_TYPE, equalTo(PLAIN_TEXT + "; " + WM_CHARSET + "=" + ISO_8859_1))
+                .willReturn(aResponse()
+                        .withBody(new String("le text reçu n'a pas de header").getBytes(ISO_8859_1))
+                        .withStatus(HttpStatus.SC_OK)));
+
+        Map<String, Object> output = executeConnector(buildCharsetParametersSet(ISO_8859_1));
+        assertEquals("le text reçu n'a pas de header", output.get(RESTConnector.BODY_AS_STRING_OUTPUT_PARAMETER));
+    }
+    
+    @Test
+    public void useDefaultCharsetWhenNoContentTypeAndFallbackPropertyIsSet() throws BonitaException, UnsupportedEncodingException {
+        System.setProperty(RESTConnector.DEFAULT_JVM_CHARSET_FALLBACK_PROPERTY, "true");
+        stubFor(post(urlEqualTo("/"))
+                .withHeader(WM_CONTENT_TYPE, equalTo(PLAIN_TEXT + "; " + WM_CHARSET + "=" + ISO_8859_1))
+                .willReturn(aResponse()
+                        .withBody(new String("le text reçu a été encodé avec le charset par default").getBytes(Charset.defaultCharset()))
+                        .withStatus(HttpStatus.SC_OK)));
+
+        Map<String, Object> output = executeConnector(buildCharsetParametersSet(ISO_8859_1));
+        assertEquals("le text reçu a été encodé avec le charset par default", output.get(RESTConnector.BODY_AS_STRING_OUTPUT_PARAMETER));
+    }
+    
     @Test
     public void utf8CharsetResponse() throws BonitaException, UnsupportedEncodingException {
         stubFor(post(urlEqualTo("/"))