diff --git a/HISTORY b/HISTORY
index e6c99fcf..4215806a 100644
--- a/HISTORY
+++ b/HISTORY
@@ -561,3 +561,4 @@ Video Disk Recorder Revision History
 - Moved the channel display to the bottom of the screen.
 - Displaying the frame counter in the replay progress display only when editing
   a mark.
+- Fixed handling characters above 0xEF in SVDRP.
diff --git a/svdrp.c b/svdrp.c
index e62198d9..a626fdad 100644
--- a/svdrp.c
+++ b/svdrp.c
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
  * and interact with the Video Disk Recorder - or write a full featured
  * graphical interface that sits on top of an SVDRP connection.
  *
- * $Id: svdrp.c 1.19 2001/07/14 09:45:55 kls Exp $
+ * $Id: svdrp.c 1.20 2001/07/22 13:58:48 kls Exp $
  */
 
 #define _GNU_SOURCE
@@ -941,7 +941,7 @@ void cSVDRP::Process(void)
               if (numChars > 0)
                  numChars--;
               }
-           else if (c <= 0x03 || c == 0x0D || 0xF0 <= c) {
+           else if (c <= 0x03 || c == 0x0D) {
               // ignore control characters
               }
            else if (numChars < sizeof(cmdLine) - 1) {