2 files changed, 7 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 1d4dd45f09..b5e669d285 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+Wed Oct 22 13:16:47 2008  Yukihiro Matsumoto  <matz@ruby-lang.org>
+
+	* re.c (unescape_escaped_nonascii): back out the last change on
+	  the function.  [ruby-dev:36818]
+
 Wed Oct 22 07:09:19 2008  Yukihiro Matsumoto  <matz@ruby-lang.org>
 
 	* ext/zlib/zlib.c (rb_gzreader_ungetc): should be able to unget
diff --git a/re.c b/re.c
index bd598ddf66..465e12c8c2 100644
--- a/re.c
+++ b/re.c
@@ -1967,12 +1967,8 @@ unescape_escaped_nonascii(const char **pp, const char *end, rb_encoding *enc,
 
     l = rb_enc_precise_mbclen(chbuf, chbuf+chlen, enc);
     if (MBCLEN_INVALID_P(l)) {
-        if (*encp == 0)
-            enc = *encp = rb_ascii8bit_encoding();
-        else if (*encp != rb_ascii8bit_encoding()) {
-	    strcpy(err, "invalid multibyte escape");
-            return -1;
-        }
+        strcpy(err, "invalid multibyte escape");
+        return -1;
     }
     if (1 < chlen || (chbuf[0] & 0x80)) {
         rb_str_buf_cat(buf, chbuf, chlen);