diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 4b67d1d8f..e33086c80 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2007-11-19  Marco Barisione  <marco@barisione.org>
+
+	* glib/gregex.c: When the compilation of a pattern fails in the error
+	message use the character offset and not the byte offset.
+
 2007-11-19 10:30:33  Tim Janik  <timj@imendio.com>
 
 	* configure.in: updated version number to 2.15.0 for development.
diff --git a/glib/gregex.c b/glib/gregex.c
index 9485daedc..d0acc8b47 100644
--- a/glib/gregex.c
+++ b/glib/gregex.c
@@ -924,11 +924,16 @@ g_regex_new (const gchar         *pattern,
    * immediately */
   if (re == NULL)
     {
-      GError *tmp_error = g_error_new (G_REGEX_ERROR, 
-				       G_REGEX_ERROR_COMPILE,
-				       _("Error while compiling regular "
-					 "expression %s at char %d: %s"),
-				       pattern, erroffset, errmsg);
+      GError *tmp_error;
+
+      /* PCRE uses byte offsets but we want to show character offsets */
+      erroffset = g_utf8_pointer_to_offset (pattern, &pattern[erroffset]);
+
+      tmp_error = g_error_new (G_REGEX_ERROR, 
+			       G_REGEX_ERROR_COMPILE,
+			       _("Error while compiling regular "
+				 "expression %s at char %d: %s"),
+			       pattern, erroffset, errmsg);
       g_propagate_error (error, tmp_error);
 
       return NULL;