diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index b5ccc9d170..063f7fd856 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+Wed Sep  5 17:41:11 2001  WATANABE Hirofumi  <eban@ruby-lang.org>
+
+	* lib/jcode.rb (_regexp_quote): fix quote handling.
+
 Mon Sep  3 20:26:08 2001  Nobuyoshi Nakada  <nobu.nakada@nifty.ne.jp>
 
 	* intern.h (rb_find_file_ext): changed from rb_find_file_noext().
diff --git a/lib/jcode.rb b/lib/jcode.rb
index 7175c1b4b6..eda66cac10 100644
--- a/lib/jcode.rb
+++ b/lib/jcode.rb
@@ -9,9 +9,7 @@ class String
   printf STDERR, "feel free for some warnings:\n" if $VERBOSE
 
   def _regex_quote(str)
-    str.gsub(/[][.\\|*?+{}()]/){|s|
-      if s == "\\" then "\\\\" else "\\\\#{s}" end
-    }
+    str.gsub(/[][\\]/, '\\\\\&)
   end
   private :_regex_quote