diff --git a/wp-admin/options-reading.php b/wp-admin/options-reading.php
index 28897c18d0..d1ff70f9f9 100644
--- a/wp-admin/options-reading.php
+++ b/wp-admin/options-reading.php
@@ -120,12 +120,17 @@ else :
 </fieldset></td>
 </tr>
 
-<tr valign="top">
-<th scope="row"><label for="blog_charset"><?php _e( 'Encoding for pages and feeds' ); ?></label></th>
-<td><input name="blog_charset" type="text" id="blog_charset" value="<?php form_option( 'blog_charset' ); ?>" class="regular-text" />
-<p class="description"><?php _e( 'The <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Glossary#Character_set">character encoding</a> of your site (UTF-8 is recommended, if you are adventurous there are some <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Character_set">other encodings</a>)' ); ?></p></td>
-</tr>
-<?php do_settings_fields( 'reading', 'default' ); ?>
+<?php
+function options_reading_blog_charset() {
+	echo '<input name="blog_charset" type="text" id="blog_charset" value="' . esc_attr( get_option( 'blog_charset' ) ) . '" class="regular-text" />';
+	echo '<p class="description">' . __( 'The <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Glossary#Character_set">character encoding</a> of your site (UTF-8 is recommended)' )
+		. '</p>';
+}
+
+if ( ! in_array( get_option( 'blog_charset' ), array( 'utf8', 'utf-8', 'UTF8', 'UTF-8' ) ) )
+	add_settings_field( 'blog_charset', __( 'Encoding for pages and feeds' ), 'options_reading_blog_charset', 'reading' );
+
+do_settings_fields( 'reading', 'default' ); ?>
 </table>
 
 <?php do_settings_sections( 'reading' ); ?>