diff --git a/src/ChangeLog b/src/ChangeLog
index c113c14f3..9848f2787 100644
--- a/src/ChangeLog
+++ b/src/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2002-02-22  Pavel Roskin  <proski@gnu.org>
+
+	* man2hlp.c (string_len): Don't exclude characters with codes
+	above 128 from the string length.
+
 2002-02-21  Andrew V. Samoilov  <kai@cmail.ru>
 
 	* ext.c (exec_extension): Use "#! /bin/sh".
diff --git a/src/man2hlp.c b/src/man2hlp.c
index 22010e2d8..b9a32d693 100644
--- a/src/man2hlp.c
+++ b/src/man2hlp.c
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ static int string_len (char *buffer)
 	    len ++;
 	}
 	/* Don't add control characters to the length */
-	if (c < 32)
+	if (c >= 0 && c < 32)
 	    continue;
 	/* Attempt to handle backslash quoting */
 	if (c == '\\' && !backslash_flag){