diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index be51e36e83..062163312b 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+Tue Jan 20 12:28:37 2015  NAKAMURA Usaku  <usa@ruby-lang.org>
+
+	* tool/redmine-backporter.rb (readline): fallback to normal gets on
+	  Windows because IO.console.getch is not always do as expected.
+
 Tue Jan 20 11:31:07 2015  NAKAMURA Usaku  <usa@ruby-lang.org>
 
 	* tool/redmine-backporter.rb: update usage.
diff --git a/tool/redmine-backporter.rb b/tool/redmine-backporter.rb
index bda4abcc56..c2dc74237a 100755
--- a/tool/redmine-backporter.rb
+++ b/tool/redmine-backporter.rb
@@ -201,6 +201,7 @@ def readline(prompt = '')
   cls = "\r" + (" " * lx) + "\r" + prompt
   console.print prompt
   console.flush
+  return gets.chomp if /mswin|mingw/ =~ RUBY_PLATFORM
   line = ''
   while 1
     case c = console.getch