diff --git a/src/android/Connection.java b/src/android/Connection.java
index f834dd7..a65cd79 100644
--- a/src/android/Connection.java
+++ b/src/android/Connection.java
@@ -3,9 +3,11 @@
 import java.io.BufferedReader;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.InputStreamReader;
+import java.io.OutputStreamWriter;
 import java.io.PrintWriter;
 import java.net.Socket;
 import java.net.UnknownHostException;
+import java.nio.charset.Charset;
 
 
 /**
@@ -24,6 +26,7 @@ public class Connection extends Thread {
 	private Boolean mustClose;
 	private String host;
 	private int port;
+	private String charset;
 
 
 	/**
@@ -72,6 +75,23 @@ public boolean isConnected() {
 		return result;
 	}
 
+	/**
+	 * Get the charset name used in OutputStreamWriter
+	 * @return String return charset name if socket was instantiated with that charset
+	 */
+	public String getCharset() {
+		return this.charset;
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Set the charset name for create an OutputStreamWriter that uses that charset
+	 * 
+	 * @param charset String the charset to use
+	 */
+	public void setCharset(String charset) {
+		this.charset = charset;
+	}
+
 	/**
 	 * Closes socket connection. 
 	 */
@@ -110,7 +130,13 @@ public void run() {
 		// creating connection
 		try {
 			this.callbackSocket = new Socket(this.host, this.port);
-			this.writer = new PrintWriter(this.callbackSocket.getOutputStream(), true);
+
+			if (this.charset != null) {
+				this.writer = new PrintWriter(new OutputStreamWriter(callbackSocket.getOutputStream(), Charset.forName(this.charset)), true);
+			} else {
+				this.writer = new PrintWriter(callbackSocket.getOutputStream(), true);
+			}
+
 			this.reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(callbackSocket.getInputStream()));
 
 			// receiving data chunk
diff --git a/src/android/SocketPlugin.java b/src/android/SocketPlugin.java
index 35f9422..84752ad 100644
--- a/src/android/SocketPlugin.java
+++ b/src/android/SocketPlugin.java
@@ -1,11 +1,15 @@
 package com.tlantic.plugins.socket;
 
+import android.util.Base64;
 import android.annotation.SuppressLint;
+import java.nio.ByteBuffer;
+import java.nio.CharBuffer;
 
 import java.util.HashMap;
 import java.util.Iterator;
 import java.util.Map;
 import java.util.Map.Entry;
+import java.nio.charset.Charset;
 
 import org.apache.cordova.CallbackContext;
 import org.apache.cordova.CordovaPlugin;
@@ -74,6 +78,7 @@ private void connect (JSONArray args, CallbackContext callbackContext) {
 		String key;
 		String host;
 		int port;
+		String charset = null;
 		Connection socket;
 
 		// validating parameters
@@ -89,9 +94,18 @@ private void connect (JSONArray args, CallbackContext callbackContext) {
 				port = args.getInt(1);
 				key = this.buildKey(host, port);
 
+				if (!args.isNull(2)) {
+					charset = args.getString(2);
+				}
+
 				// creating connection
 				if (this.pool.get(key) == null) {
 					socket = new Connection(this, host, port);
+
+					if (charset != null && charset.equals("cp1252")) {
+						socket.setCharset("Windows-1252");
+					}
+
 					socket.start();
 					this.pool.put(key, socket);
 				}
@@ -122,7 +136,8 @@ private void send(JSONArray args, CallbackContext callbackContext) {
 				// retrieving parameters
 				String key = args.getString(0);
 				String data = args.getString(1);
-				
+				String format = args.getString(2);
+
 				// getting socket
 				socket = this.pool.get(key);
 				
@@ -137,14 +152,24 @@ private void send(JSONArray args, CallbackContext callbackContext) {
 					callbackContext.error("Cannot send empty data to " + key);
 				
 				} else {
-				
+					if (format.equals("base64")) {
+						String charset = socket.getCharset();
+
+						if (charset == null) {
+							charset = "UTF-8";
+						}
+
+						byte[] decodedData = Base64.decode(data, Base64.DEFAULT);
+						CharBuffer charBuffer = Charset.forName(charset).decode(ByteBuffer.wrap(decodedData));
+						data = String.valueOf(charBuffer);
+					}
+
 					// write on output stream
 					socket.write(data);
-					
+
 					// ending send process
-					callbackContext.success();	
+					callbackContext.success();
 				}
-								
 			} catch (JSONException e) {
 				callbackContext.error("Unexpected error sending information: " + e.getMessage());
 			}
diff --git a/www/socket.js b/www/socket.js
index e0b1419..e24eb95 100644
--- a/www/socket.js
+++ b/www/socket.js
@@ -10,9 +10,9 @@ function Socket(){
 }
 
 //
-Socket.prototype.connect = function (successCallback, errorCallback, host, port) {
+Socket.prototype.connect = function (successCallback, errorCallback, host, port, charset) {
     'use strict';
-    exec(successCallback, errorCallback, this.pluginRef, 'connect', [host, port]);
+    exec(successCallback, errorCallback, this.pluginRef, 'connect', [host, port, charset]);
 };
 
 //