diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index c5baab1757..a0caf69058 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,10 +1,16 @@
+Sat Mar 30 03:58:00 2013  NAKAMURA Usaku  <usa@ruby-lang.org>
+
+	* win32/file.c (code_page): use cp1252 instead of cp20127 as US-ASCII.
+	  fix [ruby-core:53079] [Bug #7996]
+	  reported and patched by mmeltner (Michael Meltner).
+
 Sat Mar 30 03:49:21 2013  NAKAMURA Usaku  <usa@ruby-lang.org>
 
 	* win32/win32.c (wrename): use MoveFileExW instead of MoveFileW,
 	  because the latter fails on cross device file move of some
 	  environments.
 	  fix [ruby-core:53492] [Bug #8109]
-	  reported by mitchellh (Mitchell Hashimoto)
+	  reported by mitchellh (Mitchell Hashimoto).
 
 Fri Mar 29 22:09:46 2013  Nobuyoshi Nakada  <nobu@ruby-lang.org>
 
diff --git a/win32/file.c b/win32/file.c
index 350f8da182..96fe61bad2 100644
--- a/win32/file.c
+++ b/win32/file.c
@@ -212,9 +212,9 @@ code_page(rb_encoding *enc)
 	names_ary = rb_funcall(encoding, names, 0);
     }
 
-    /* map US-ASCII and ASCII-8bit as code page 20127 (us-ascii) */
+    /* map US-ASCII and ASCII-8bit as code page 1252 (us-ascii) */
     if (enc == rb_usascii_encoding() || enc == rb_ascii8bit_encoding()) {
-	UINT code_page = 20127;
+	UINT code_page = 1252;
 	rb_hash_aset(rb_code_page, name_key, INT2FIX(code_page));
 	return code_page;
     }