diff --git a/superset/views/base.py b/superset/views/base.py
index 02aaf8daef3b5..73627d0463fcf 100644
--- a/superset/views/base.py
+++ b/superset/views/base.py
@@ -336,3 +336,10 @@ def apply(self, query, func):  # noqa
         perms = self.get_view_menus('datasource_access')
         # TODO(bogdan): add `schema_access` support here
         return query.filter(self.model.perm.in_(perms))
+
+
+class CsvResponse(Response):
+    """
+    Override Response to take into account csv encoding from config.py
+    """
+    charset = conf.get('CSV_EXPORT').get('encoding', 'utf-8')
diff --git a/superset/views/core.py b/superset/views/core.py
index 72d2cf6cafbb5..faa61ad4374a4 100755
--- a/superset/views/core.py
+++ b/superset/views/core.py
@@ -43,8 +43,8 @@
 
 from .base import (
     api, SupersetModelView, BaseSupersetView, DeleteMixin,
-    SupersetFilter, get_user_roles, json_error_response, get_error_msg
-)
+    SupersetFilter, get_user_roles, json_error_response, get_error_msg,
+    CsvResponse)
 
 config = app.config
 stats_logger = config.get('STATS_LOGGER')
@@ -959,7 +959,7 @@ def explore_json(self, datasource_type, datasource_id):
             return json_error_response(DATASOURCE_ACCESS_ERR, status=404)
 
         if request.args.get("csv") == "true":
-            return Response(
+            return CsvResponse(
                 viz_obj.get_csv(),
                 status=200,
                 headers=generate_download_headers("csv"),