diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 57b35d75d6..eaa5d11a7b 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+Mon Apr 15 00:13:13 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).
+
 Mon Apr 15 00:07:31 2013  Nobuyoshi Nakada  <nobu@ruby-lang.org>
 
 	* include/ruby/io.h: undef POSIX compliant names on AIX, which are no
diff --git a/version.h b/version.h
index fe6d111ce6..85d00bd7e6 100644
--- a/version.h
+++ b/version.h
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #define RUBY_VERSION "2.0.0"
 #define RUBY_RELEASE_DATE "2013-04-15"
-#define RUBY_PATCHLEVEL 128
+#define RUBY_PATCHLEVEL 129
 
 #define RUBY_RELEASE_YEAR 2013
 #define RUBY_RELEASE_MONTH 4
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;
     }