diff --git a/lib/core/option.py b/lib/core/option.py
index ffa99b2e4..ca937f347 100644
--- a/lib/core/option.py
+++ b/lib/core/option.py
@@ -117,6 +117,7 @@ from lib.core.threads import getCurrentThreadData
 from lib.core.update import update
 from lib.parse.configfile import configFileParser
 from lib.parse.payloads import loadPayloads
+from lib.request.basic import checkCharEncoding
 from lib.request.connect import Connect as Request
 from lib.request.dns import DNSServer
 from lib.request.proxy import ProxyHTTPSHandler
@@ -1965,13 +1966,14 @@ def __basicOptionValidation():
             raise sqlmapSyntaxException, errMsg
 
     if conf.charset:
-        try:
-            codecs.lookup(conf.charset)
-        except LookupError:
+        _ = checkCharEncoding(conf.charset, False)
+        if _ is None:
             errMsg = "unknown charset '%s'. Please visit " % conf.charset
             errMsg += "'%s' to get the full list of " % CODECS_LIST_PAGE
             errMsg += "supported charsets"
             raise sqlmapSyntaxException, errMsg
+        else:
+            conf.charset = _
 
     if conf.loadCookies:
         if not os.path.exists(conf.loadCookies):
diff --git a/lib/request/basic.py b/lib/request/basic.py
index 620f4c19c..50c900305 100644
--- a/lib/request/basic.py
+++ b/lib/request/basic.py
@@ -100,14 +100,14 @@ def parseResponse(page, headers):
     if page:
         htmlParser(page)
 
-def checkCharEncoding(encoding):
+def checkCharEncoding(encoding, warn=True):
     if encoding:
         encoding = encoding.lower()
     else:
         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", "th": "tis-620", "unicode": "utf8",  "utc8": "utf8"}
+    translate = { "windows-874": "iso-8859-11", "en_us": "utf8", "macintosh": "iso-8859-1", "euc_tw": "big5_tw", "th": "tis-620", "unicode": "utf8",  "utc8": "utf8", "ebcdic": "ebcdic-cp-be"}
 
     for delimiter in (';', ',', '('):
         if delimiter in encoding:
@@ -156,9 +156,10 @@ def checkCharEncoding(encoding):
     try:
         codecs.lookup(encoding)
     except LookupError:
-        warnMsg = "unknown web page charset '%s'. " % encoding
-        warnMsg += "Please report by e-mail to %s." % ML
-        singleTimeLogMessage(warnMsg, logging.WARN, encoding)
+        if warn:
+            warnMsg = "unknown web page charset '%s'. " % encoding
+            warnMsg += "Please report by e-mail to %s." % ML
+            singleTimeLogMessage(warnMsg, logging.WARN, encoding)
         encoding = None
 
     return encoding