diff --git a/django/core/handlers/wsgi.py b/django/core/handlers/wsgi.py
index 3099cfb64f..37cd028f52 100644
--- a/django/core/handlers/wsgi.py
+++ b/django/core/handlers/wsgi.py
@@ -2,9 +2,7 @@ from __future__ import unicode_literals
 
 import cgi
 import codecs
-import logging
 import re
-import sys
 from io import BytesIO
 
 from django import http
@@ -13,10 +11,11 @@ from django.core import signals
 from django.core.handlers import base
 from django.urls import set_script_prefix
 from django.utils import six
-from django.utils.encoding import force_str, force_text
-from django.utils.functional import cached_property
+from django.utils.encoding import (
+    force_str, force_text, repercent_broken_unicode,
+)
 
-logger = logging.getLogger('django.request')
+from django.utils.functional import cached_property
 
 # encode() and decode() expect the charset to be a native string.
 ISO_8859_1, UTF_8 = str('iso-8859-1'), str('utf-8')
@@ -155,19 +154,8 @@ class WSGIHandler(base.BaseHandler):
     def __call__(self, environ, start_response):
         set_script_prefix(get_script_name(environ))
         signals.request_started.send(sender=self.__class__, environ=environ)
-        try:
-            request = self.request_class(environ)
-        except UnicodeDecodeError:
-            logger.warning(
-                'Bad Request (UnicodeDecodeError)',
-                exc_info=sys.exc_info(),
-                extra={
-                    'status_code': 400,
-                }
-            )
-            response = http.HttpResponseBadRequest()
-        else:
-            response = self.get_response(request)
+        request = self.request_class(environ)
+        response = self.get_response(request)
 
         response._handler_class = self.__class__
 
@@ -187,7 +175,7 @@ def get_path_info(environ):
     """
     path_info = get_bytes_from_wsgi(environ, 'PATH_INFO', '/')
 
-    return path_info.decode(UTF_8)
+    return repercent_broken_unicode(path_info).decode(UTF_8)
 
 
 def get_script_name(environ):
diff --git a/django/core/servers/basehttp.py b/django/core/servers/basehttp.py
index 60fc09a122..b6fd7b17f6 100644
--- a/django/core/servers/basehttp.py
+++ b/django/core/servers/basehttp.py
@@ -15,10 +15,8 @@ import sys
 from wsgiref import simple_server
 
 from django.core.exceptions import ImproperlyConfigured
-from django.core.handlers.wsgi import ISO_8859_1, UTF_8
 from django.core.wsgi import get_wsgi_application
 from django.utils import six
-from django.utils.encoding import uri_to_iri
 from django.utils.module_loading import import_string
 from django.utils.six.moves import socketserver
 
@@ -139,19 +137,7 @@ class WSGIRequestHandler(simple_server.WSGIRequestHandler, object):
             if '_' in k:
                 del self.headers[k]
 
-        env = super(WSGIRequestHandler, self).get_environ()
-
-        path = self.path
-        if '?' in path:
-            path = path.partition('?')[0]
-
-        path = uri_to_iri(path).encode(UTF_8)
-        # Under Python 3, non-ASCII values in the WSGI environ are arbitrarily
-        # decoded with ISO-8859-1. We replicate this behavior here.
-        # Refs comment in `get_bytes_from_wsgi()`.
-        env['PATH_INFO'] = path.decode(ISO_8859_1) if six.PY3 else path
-
-        return env
+        return super(WSGIRequestHandler, self).get_environ()
 
     def handle(self):
         """Copy of WSGIRequestHandler, but with different ServerHandler"""
diff --git a/tests/handlers/tests.py b/tests/handlers/tests.py
index 9f01cb201a..ea7a5ba130 100644
--- a/tests/handlers/tests.py
+++ b/tests/handlers/tests.py
@@ -33,12 +33,16 @@ class HandlerTests(SimpleTestCase):
         self.assertIsNotNone(handler._request_middleware)
 
     def test_bad_path_info(self):
-        """Tests for bug #15672 ('request' referenced before assignment)"""
+        """
+        A non-UTF-8 path populates PATH_INFO with an URL-encoded path and
+        produces a 404.
+        """
         environ = RequestFactory().get('/').environ
         environ['PATH_INFO'] = b'\xed' if six.PY2 else '\xed'
         handler = WSGIHandler()
         response = handler(environ, lambda *a, **k: None)
-        self.assertEqual(response.status_code, 400)
+        # The path of the request will be encoded to '/%ED'.
+        self.assertEqual(response.status_code, 404)
 
     def test_non_ascii_query_string(self):
         """
diff --git a/tests/requests/tests.py b/tests/requests/tests.py
index 0465f0a1e8..425f93a5be 100644
--- a/tests/requests/tests.py
+++ b/tests/requests/tests.py
@@ -173,8 +173,8 @@ class RequestsTests(SimpleTestCase):
         self.assertEqual(repr(request), str_prefix("<WSGIRequest: GET '/somepath/'>"))
 
     def test_wsgirequest_path_info(self):
-        def wsgi_str(path_info):
-            path_info = path_info.encode('utf-8')           # Actual URL sent by the browser (bytestring)
+        def wsgi_str(path_info, encoding='utf-8'):
+            path_info = path_info.encode(encoding)           # Actual URL sent by the browser (bytestring)
             if six.PY3:
                 path_info = path_info.decode('iso-8859-1')  # Value in the WSGI environ dict (native string)
             return path_info
@@ -182,6 +182,16 @@ class RequestsTests(SimpleTestCase):
         request = WSGIRequest({'PATH_INFO': wsgi_str("/سلام/"), 'REQUEST_METHOD': 'get', 'wsgi.input': BytesIO(b'')})
         self.assertEqual(request.path, "/سلام/")
 
+        # The URL may be incorrectly encoded in a non-UTF-8 encoding (#26971)
+        request = WSGIRequest({
+            'PATH_INFO': wsgi_str("/café/", encoding='iso-8859-1'),
+            'REQUEST_METHOD': 'get',
+            'wsgi.input': BytesIO(b''),
+        })
+        # Since it's impossible to decide the (wrong) encoding of the URL, it's
+        # left percent-encoded in the path.
+        self.assertEqual(request.path, "/caf%E9/")
+
     def test_httprequest_location(self):
         request = HttpRequest()
         self.assertEqual(