diff --git a/util/ChangeLog b/util/ChangeLog
index dcb21678c..1ae5ac57d 100644
--- a/util/ChangeLog
+++ b/util/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2009-08-18  Werner Koch  <wk@g10code.com>
+
+	* miscutil.c (print_string2): Loose check for control characters
+	to better cope with utf-8.  The range 0x80..0x9f is nowadays not
+	anymore accidently used for control charaters.  Fixes bug#1103.
+
 2009-08-11  David Shaw  <dshaw@jabberwocky.com>
 
 	* strgutil.c (string_to_utf8): New function to convert a Latin-1
diff --git a/util/miscutil.c b/util/miscutil.c
index 14fdc79c0..f74d3e38b 100644
--- a/util/miscutil.c
+++ b/util/miscutil.c
@@ -256,7 +256,8 @@ void
 print_string2( FILE *fp, const byte *p, size_t n, int delim, int delim2 )
 {
     for( ; n; n--, p++ )
-	if( *p < 0x20 || (*p >= 0x7f && *p < 0xa0)
+	if (*p < 0x20 
+            || *p == 0x7f
 	    || *p == delim || *p == delim2
 	    || ((delim || delim2) && *p=='\\'))
 	  {