diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index bac8c0bacb..1b6f52d123 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -2,6 +2,10 @@ Tue Dec 25 12:22:17 2007  NARUSE, Yui <naruse@ruby-lang.org>
 
 	* sample/from.rb: follow Ruby 1.9 libraries.
 
+Tue Dec 25 12:21:56 2007  Yukihiro Matsumoto  <matz@ruby-lang.org>
+
+	* proc.c (method_inspect): preserve encoding of the method name.
+
 Tue Dec 25 12:07:52 2007  Nobuyoshi Nakada  <nobu@ruby-lang.org>
 
 	* configure.in (BASERUBY): delayed error until BASERUBY is used.
diff --git a/proc.c b/proc.c
index 8caabaecac..422af20c52 100644
--- a/proc.c
+++ b/proc.c
@@ -1402,7 +1402,7 @@ method_inspect(VALUE method)
 	}
     }
     rb_str_buf_cat2(str, sharp);
-    rb_str_buf_cat2(str, rb_id2name(data->oid));
+    rb_str_append(str, rb_id2str(data->oid));
     rb_str_buf_cat2(str, ">");
 
     return str;