diff --git a/web/pgadmin/tools/sqleditor/__init__.py b/web/pgadmin/tools/sqleditor/__init__.py
index 40442ff5e..0fa35ca06 100644
--- a/web/pgadmin/tools/sqleditor/__init__.py
+++ b/web/pgadmin/tools/sqleditor/__init__.py
@@ -453,7 +453,9 @@ def poll(trans_id):
                         # Using characters %, (, ) in the argument names is not
                         # supported in psycopg2
                         col_info['pgadmin_alias'] = \
-                            re.sub("[%()]+", "|", col_name)
+                            re.sub("[%()]+", "|", col_name).\
+                            encode('unicode_escape').decode('utf-8')
+
                     session_obj['columns_info'] = columns
 
                 # status of async_fetchmany_2darray is True and result is none
diff --git a/web/pgadmin/tools/sqleditor/tests/test_encoding_charset.py b/web/pgadmin/tools/sqleditor/tests/test_encoding_charset.py
index a0964cce3..c68c5fbbd 100644
--- a/web/pgadmin/tools/sqleditor/tests/test_encoding_charset.py
+++ b/web/pgadmin/tools/sqleditor/tests/test_encoding_charset.py
@@ -45,6 +45,13 @@ class TestEncodingCharset(BaseTestGenerator):
                 lc_collate='C',
                 test_str='Tif'
             )),
+        (
+            'With Encoding SQL_ASCII (additional test)',
+            dict(
+                db_encoding='SQL_ASCII',
+                lc_collate='C',
+                test_str='ü'
+            )),
         (
             'With Encoding LATIN1',
             dict(
diff --git a/web/pgadmin/tools/sqleditor/tests/test_sql_ascii_encoding.py b/web/pgadmin/tools/sqleditor/tests/test_sql_ascii_encoding.py
index a71dfaad0..e25769a9c 100644
--- a/web/pgadmin/tools/sqleditor/tests/test_sql_ascii_encoding.py
+++ b/web/pgadmin/tools/sqleditor/tests/test_sql_ascii_encoding.py
@@ -55,6 +55,14 @@ class TestSQLASCIIEncoding(BaseTestGenerator):
                 lc_collate='C',
                 test_str='Blob: \xf4\xa5\xa3\xa5'
             )),
+        (
+            'Test SQL_ASCII data with blob string & ascii table name',
+            dict(
+                table_name='ü',
+                db_encoding='SQL_ASCII',
+                lc_collate='C',
+                test_str='Blob: \xf4\xa5\xa3\xa5'
+            )),
     ]
 
     def setUp(self):