diff --git a/web/pgadmin/tools/sqleditor/tests/test_encoding_charset.py b/web/pgadmin/tools/sqleditor/tests/test_encoding_charset.py
index 8a8d45e3..df410a0e 100644
--- a/web/pgadmin/tools/sqleditor/tests/test_encoding_charset.py
+++ b/web/pgadmin/tools/sqleditor/tests/test_encoding_charset.py
@@ -51,6 +51,21 @@ class TestEncodingCharset(BaseTestGenerator):
                 lc_collate='C',
                 test_str='\\255'
             )),
+        (
+            'With Encoding LATIN1',
+            dict(
+                db_encoding='LATIN1',
+                lc_collate='C',
+                test_str='Ň'
+            )),
+        (
+            'With Encoding LATIN2',
+            dict(
+                db_encoding='LATIN2',
+                lc_collate='C',
+                test_str='§'
+            )),
+
     ]
 
     def setUp(self):
diff --git a/web/pgadmin/utils/driver/psycopg2/connection.py b/web/pgadmin/utils/driver/psycopg2/connection.py
index 0e77de5e..a94bc469 100644
--- a/web/pgadmin/utils/driver/psycopg2/connection.py
+++ b/web/pgadmin/utils/driver/psycopg2/connection.py
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ from .cursor import DictCursor
 from .typecast import register_global_typecasters, \
     register_string_typecasters, register_binary_typecasters, \
     register_array_to_string_typecasters, ALL_JSON_TYPES
-
+from .encoding import getEncoding
 
 if sys.version_info < (3,):
     # Python2 in-built csv module do not handle unicode
@@ -402,20 +402,13 @@ class Connection(BaseConnection):
         if self.use_binary_placeholder:
             register_binary_typecasters(self.conn)
 
-        if self.conn.encoding in ('SQL_ASCII', 'SQLASCII',
-                                  'MULE_INTERNAL', 'MULEINTERNAL'):
-            status = _execute(cur, "SET DateStyle=ISO;"
-                                   "SET client_min_messages=notice;"
-                                   "SET bytea_output=escape;"
-                                   "SET client_encoding='{0}';"
-                              .format(self.conn.encoding))
-            self.python_encoding = 'raw_unicode_escape'
-        else:
-            status = _execute(cur, "SET DateStyle=ISO;"
-                                   "SET client_min_messages=notice;"
-                                   "SET bytea_output=escape;"
-                                   "SET client_encoding='UNICODE';")
-            self.python_encoding = 'utf-8'
+        postgres_encoding, self.python_encoding = getEncoding(self.conn.encoding)
+
+        status = _execute(cur, "SET DateStyle=ISO; "
+                               "SET client_min_messages=notice;"
+                               "SET bytea_output=escape;"
+                               "SET client_encoding='{0}';"
+                          .format(postgres_encoding))
 
         # Replace the python encoding for original name and renamed encodings
         # psycopg2 removes the underscore in conn.encoding
diff --git a/web/pgadmin/utils/driver/psycopg2/encoding.py b/web/pgadmin/utils/driver/psycopg2/encoding.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..4448edd6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/web/pgadmin/utils/driver/psycopg2/encoding.py
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+##########################################################################
+#
+# pgAdmin 4 - PostgreSQL Tools
+#
+# Copyright (C) 2013 - 2018, The pgAdmin Development Team
+# This software is released under the PostgreSQL Licence
+#
+##########################################################################
+
+#  Get Postgres and Python encoding
+
+
+def getEncoding(key):
+    """
+    :param key: Database Encoding
+    :return:
+    [Postgres_encoding, Python_encoding] - Postgres and Python encoding
+    """
+    encode_dict = {
+        'SQL_ASCII': ['SQL_ASCII', 'raw_unicode_escape'],
+        'SQLASCII': ['SQL_ASCII', 'raw_unicode_escape'],
+        'MULE_INTERNAL': ['MULE_INTERNAL', 'raw_unicode_escape'],
+        'MULEINTERNAL': ['MULEINTERNAL', 'raw_unicode_escape'],
+        'LATIN1': ['LATIN1', 'latin1'],
+        'LATIN2': ['LATIN2', 'latin2'],
+        'LATIN3': ['LATIN3', 'latin3'],
+        'LATIN4': ['LATIN4', 'latin4'],
+        'LATIN5': ['LATIN5', 'latin5'],
+        'LATIN6': ['LATIN6', 'latin6'],
+        'LATIN7': ['LATIN7', 'latin7'],
+        'LATIN8': ['LATIN8', 'latin8'],
+        'LATIN9': ['LATIN9', 'latin9'],
+        'LATIN10': ['LATIN10', 'latin10']
+    }
+
+    return encode_dict.get(key, ['UNICODE', 'utf-8'])
diff --git a/web/pgadmin/utils/tests/test_encoding.py b/web/pgadmin/utils/tests/test_encoding.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..28a4b9ee
--- /dev/null
+++ b/web/pgadmin/utils/tests/test_encoding.py
@@ -0,0 +1,98 @@
+#######################################################################
+#
+# pgAdmin 4 - PostgreSQL Tools
+#
+# Copyright (C) 2013 - 2018, The pgAdmin Development Team
+# This software is released under the PostgreSQL Licence
+#
+##########################################################################
+from pgadmin.utils.driver.psycopg2.encoding import getEncoding
+from pgadmin.utils.route import BaseTestGenerator
+
+
+class TestEncoding(BaseTestGenerator):
+    scenarios = [
+        (
+            'When the database encoding is SQL_ASCII',
+            dict(
+                db_encoding='SQL_ASCII',
+                expected_return_value=['SQL_ASCII', 'raw_unicode_escape']
+            )
+        ), (
+            'When the database encoding is MULEINTERNAL',
+            dict(
+                db_encoding='MULEINTERNAL',
+                expected_return_value=['MULEINTERNAL', 'raw_unicode_escape']
+            )
+        ), (
+            'When the database encoding is LATIN1',
+            dict(
+                db_encoding='LATIN1',
+                expected_return_value=['LATIN1', 'latin1']
+            )
+        ), (
+            'When the database encoding is LATIN2',
+            dict(
+                db_encoding='LATIN2',
+                expected_return_value=['LATIN2', 'latin2']
+            )
+        ), (
+            'When the database encoding is LATIN3',
+            dict(
+                db_encoding='LATIN3',
+                expected_return_value=['LATIN3', 'latin3']
+            )
+        ), (
+            'When the database encoding is LATIN4',
+            dict(
+                db_encoding='LATIN4',
+                expected_return_value=['LATIN4', 'latin4']
+            )
+        ), (
+            'When the database encoding is LATIN5',
+            dict(
+                db_encoding='LATIN5',
+                expected_return_value=['LATIN5', 'latin5']
+            )
+        ), (
+            'When the database encoding is LATIN6',
+            dict(
+                db_encoding='LATIN6',
+                expected_return_value=['LATIN6', 'latin6']
+            )
+        ), (
+            'When the database encoding is LATIN7',
+            dict(
+                db_encoding='LATIN7',
+                expected_return_value=['LATIN7', 'latin7']
+            )
+        ), (
+            'When the database encoding is LATIN8',
+            dict(
+                db_encoding='LATIN8',
+                expected_return_value=['LATIN8', 'latin8']
+            )
+        ), (
+            'When the database encoding is LATIN9',
+            dict(
+                db_encoding='LATIN9',
+                expected_return_value=['LATIN9', 'latin9']
+            )
+        ), (
+            'When the database encoding is LATIN10',
+            dict(
+                db_encoding='LATIN10',
+                expected_return_value=['LATIN10', 'latin10']
+            )
+        ), (
+            'When the database encoding is WIN1258',
+            dict(
+                db_encoding='WIN1258',
+                expected_return_value=['UNICODE', 'utf-8']
+            )
+        ),
+    ]
+
+    def runTest(self):
+        result = getEncoding(self.db_encoding)
+        self.assertEquals(result, self.expected_return_value)