diff --git a/CONTRIBUTORS b/CONTRIBUTORS
index ecb8309e..66bf2975 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTORS
+++ b/CONTRIBUTORS
@@ -1405,6 +1405,7 @@ Marco Schl
  for fixing handling ChannelUp/Down keys if there is currently a replay running
  for fixing a buffer overflow in initializing the system character table
  for reporting a missing 'P' in vdr.c's SHUTDOWNCANCELROMPT macro
+ for fixing a problem with characters >0x7F in the modified version of skipspace()
 
 Jürgen Schmitz <j.schmitz@web.de>
  for reporting a bug in displaying the current channel when switching via the SVDRP
diff --git a/HISTORY b/HISTORY
index 34d2111b..c2ee0762 100644
--- a/HISTORY
+++ b/HISTORY
@@ -5306,3 +5306,5 @@ Video Disk Recorder Revision History
   find out when incomplete log excerpts were attached to problem reports in
   the past.
 - Updated the Estonian OSD texts (thanks to Arthur Konovalov).
+- Fixed a problem with characters >0x7F in the modified version of skipspace()
+  (thanks to Marco Schlüßler).
diff --git a/tools.h b/tools.h
index 17875d0b..90b4115f 100644
--- a/tools.h
+++ b/tools.h
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
  * See the main source file 'vdr.c' for copyright information and
  * how to reach the author.
  *
- * $Id: tools.h 1.105 2007/07/28 09:43:04 kls Exp $
+ * $Id: tools.h 1.106 2007/07/28 12:54:49 kls Exp $
  */
 
 #ifndef __TOOLS_H
@@ -175,9 +175,9 @@ char *strreplace(char *s, char c1, char c2);
 char *strreplace(char *s, const char *s1, const char *s2); ///< re-allocates 's' and deletes the original string if necessary!
 inline char *skipspace(const char *s)
 {
-  if (*s > ' ') // most strings don't have any leading space, so handle this case as fast as possible
+  if ((uchar)*s > ' ') // most strings don't have any leading space, so handle this case as fast as possible
      return (char *)s;
-  while (*s && *s <= ' ') // avoiding isspace() here, because it is much slower
+  while (*s && (uchar)*s <= ' ') // avoiding isspace() here, because it is much slower
         s++;
   return (char *)s;
 }