diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 3f425cdb9c..d9ce30ab42 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+Sat Mar  1 12:34:21 2008  Yukihiro Matsumoto  <matz@ruby-lang.org>
+
+	* string.c (sym_inspect): use rb_str_inspect() instead of
+	  rb_str_dump().  [ruby-dev:33946]
+
 Sat Mar  1 12:15:42 2008  Yukihiro Matsumoto  <matz@ruby-lang.org>
 
 	* eval_method.c (rb_get_method_body): ent->method may be freed by
diff --git a/string.c b/string.c
index 566c5de818..b07337ca42 100644
--- a/string.c
+++ b/string.c
@@ -6290,7 +6290,7 @@ sym_inspect(VALUE sym)
     memcpy(RSTRING_PTR(str)+1, RSTRING_PTR(sym), RSTRING_LEN(sym));
     if (RSTRING_LEN(sym) != strlen(RSTRING_PTR(sym)) ||
 	!rb_enc_symname_p(RSTRING_PTR(sym), enc)) {
-	str = rb_str_dump(str);
+	str = rb_str_inspect(str);
 	strncpy(RSTRING_PTR(str), ":\"", 2);
     }
     if (klass != Qundef) {