diff --git a/js/export.js b/js/export.js
index f47d829ede..c678b03224 100644
--- a/js/export.js
+++ b/js/export.js
@@ -308,6 +308,16 @@ AJAX.registerOnload('export.js', function () {
         }
     });
 
+    // When MS Excel is selected as the Format automatically Switch to Character Set as windows-1252
+    $('#plugins').change(function () {
+        var selected_plugin_name = $('#plugins').find('option:selected').val();
+        if (selected_plugin_name === 'excel') {
+            $('#select_charset').val('windows-1252');
+        } else {
+            $('#select_charset').val('utf-8');
+        }
+    });
+
     // For separate-file exports only ZIP compression is allowed
     $('input[type="checkbox"][name="as_separate_files"]').on('change', function () {
         if ($(this).is(':checked')) {