diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 9cc67cc61..19bc29220 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2001-09-27  Richard Frith-Macdonald <rfm@gnu.org>
+
+        * Source/NSString: setupQuotables() ... add several characters to the
+	set of those valid in an unquoted string ... so read back of NSNumber
+	values encoded as strings works ... problem reported by Rene Cornilis.
+
 2001-09-26  Richard Frith-Macdonald <rfm@gnu.org>
 
         * Source/GNUmakefile: install DistributedObjects.h in gnustep/base
diff --git a/Source/NSString.m b/Source/NSString.m
index dc812c24a..f287203d2 100644
--- a/Source/NSString.m
+++ b/Source/NSString.m
@@ -141,7 +141,8 @@ static void setupQuotables()
       NSData *bitmap;
 
       s = [[NSCharacterSet characterSetWithCharactersInString:
-	@"0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz$./_"]
+	@"0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ"
+	@"abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz!#$%&*+-./:?@|~_^"]
 	mutableCopy];
       [s invert];
       quotables = [s copy];