diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index f9e911784f..611fb7481e 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+Fri Jun 30 19:35:41 2006  GOTOU Yuuzou  <gotoyuzo@notwork.org>
+
+	* lib/webrick/httputils.rb (WEBrick::HTTPUtils._escape): should
+	  use String#ord to get ascii code from the one-character string.
+	  [ruby-dev:28901]
+
 Thu Jun 29 23:56:01 2006  Yukihiro Matsumoto  <matz@ruby-lang.org>
 
 	* gc.c (gc_mark_children): a bug in NODE_BLOCK_PASS marking.
diff --git a/lib/webrick/httputils.rb b/lib/webrick/httputils.rb
index e660f04405..c93146997f 100644
--- a/lib/webrick/httputils.rb
+++ b/lib/webrick/httputils.rb
@@ -358,7 +358,7 @@ module WEBrick
 
     def _make_regex(str) /([#{Regexp.escape(str)}])/n end
     def _make_regex!(str) /([^#{Regexp.escape(str)}])/n end
-    def _escape(str, regex) str.gsub(regex){ "%%%02X" % $1[0] } end
+    def _escape(str, regex) str.gsub(regex){ "%%%02X" % $1.ord } end
     def _unescape(str, regex) str.gsub(regex){ $1.hex.chr } end
 
     UNESCAPED = _make_regex(control+space+delims+unwise+nonascii)