diff --git a/gas/ChangeLog b/gas/ChangeLog
index 3269418d665..dd929b4cac9 100644
--- a/gas/ChangeLog
+++ b/gas/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2010-09-22  Robin Getz  <robin.getz@analog.com>
+
+	* config/bfin-lex.l: Accept multibyte chars in symbol names.
+
 2010-09-22  Robin Getz  <robin.getz@analog.com>
 
 	* config/bfin-defs.h (statusflags): Add AC0_COPY, V_COPY, and RND_MOD.
diff --git a/gas/config/bfin-lex.l b/gas/config/bfin-lex.l
index bc7957ad837..bdd02f5bcff 100644
--- a/gas/config/bfin-lex.l
+++ b/gas/config/bfin-lex.l
@@ -299,7 +299,7 @@ int yylex (void);
     yylval.value = parse_int (&yytext);
     return NUMBER;
   }
-[A-Za-z_$.][A-Za-z0-9_$.]* {
+[[:alpha:]\x80-\xff_$.][[:alnum:]\x80-\xff_$.]* {
     yylval.symbol = symbol_find_or_make (yytext);
     symbol_mark_used (yylval.symbol);
     return SYMBOL;