diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 67e93a6c71..530ee3ce54 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+Mon Sep 12 12:53:39 2011  NAKAMURA Usaku  <usa@ruby-lang.org>
+
+	* lib/rake/file_list.rb (Rake::FileList#egrep): there is no need to
+	  open files in binary mode.
+	  see more details in https://github.com/jimweirich/rake/issues/74
+
 Mon Sep 12 12:42:36 2011  Nobuyoshi Nakada  <nobu@ruby-lang.org>
 
 	* test/ruby/test_exception.rb (TestException#test_exit_success_p):
diff --git a/lib/rake/file_list.rb b/lib/rake/file_list.rb
index 9f780346f3..e49ccd0147 100644
--- a/lib/rake/file_list.rb
+++ b/lib/rake/file_list.rb
@@ -286,7 +286,7 @@ module Rake
       matched = 0
       each do |fn|
         begin
-          open(fn, "rb", *options) do |inf|
+          open(fn, "r:ascii-8bit", *options) do |inf|
             count = 0
             inf.each do |line|
               count += 1