diff --git a/doc/THANKS b/doc/THANKS
index 9f07b738a..217fcfa61 100644
--- a/doc/THANKS
+++ b/doc/THANKS
@@ -308,6 +308,9 @@ Spencer J. McIntyre <smcintyre@securestate.com>
 Ahmad Maulana <matdhule@gmail.com>
     for contributing one tamper scripts, halfversionedmorekeywords.py
 
+Brad Merrell <bradmer12@gmail.com>
+    for reporting a minor bug
+
 Enrico Milanese <enricomilanese@gmail.com>
     for reporting a minor bug
     for sharing some ideas for the PHP backdoor
diff --git a/lib/request/basic.py b/lib/request/basic.py
index 23098c148..d286f3786 100644
--- a/lib/request/basic.py
+++ b/lib/request/basic.py
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ def checkCharEncoding(encoding):
         return encoding
 
     # http://www.destructor.de/charsets/index.htm
-    translate = { 'windows-874': 'iso-8859-11', 'en_us': 'utf8', 'macintosh': 'iso-8859-1', 'euc_tw': 'big5_tw' }
+    translate = { 'windows-874': 'iso-8859-11', 'en_us': 'utf8', 'macintosh': 'iso-8859-1', 'euc_tw': 'big5_tw', 'th': 'tis-620' }
 
     for delimiter in (';', ',', '('):
         if delimiter in encoding: