diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 4eb24cd9a..824fbaa01 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -1,6 +1,9 @@
 Release 0.6.3 (in development)
 ==============================
 
+* #227: Make ``literalinclude`` work when the document's path
+  name contains non-ASCII characters.
+
 * #229: Fix autodoc failures with members that raise errors
   on ``getattr()``.
 
diff --git a/sphinx/directives/code.py b/sphinx/directives/code.py
index 645bc7844..6aaf44b86 100644
--- a/sphinx/directives/code.py
+++ b/sphinx/directives/code.py
@@ -101,7 +101,13 @@ class LiteralInclude(Directive):
         else:
             docdir = path.dirname(env.doc2path(env.docname, base=None))
             rel_fn = path.normpath(path.join(docdir, filename))
-        fn = path.join(env.srcdir, rel_fn)
+        try:
+            fn = path.join(env.srcdir, rel_fn)
+        except UnicodeDecodeError:
+            # the source directory is a bytestring with non-ASCII characters;
+            # let's try to encode the rel_fn in the file system encoding
+            rel_fn = rel_fn.encode(sys.getfilesystemencoding())
+            fn = path.join(env.srcdir, rel_fn)
 
         if 'pyobject' in self.options and 'lines' in self.options:
             return [document.reporter.warning(