diff --git a/a2ps-iso5-minus.patch b/a2ps-iso5-minus.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5da644b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/a2ps-iso5-minus.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+diff -up a2ps-4.13/encoding/iso5.edf.iso5-minus a2ps-4.13/encoding/iso5.edf
+--- a2ps-4.13/encoding/iso5.edf.iso5-minus	2007-09-25 17:57:32.000000000 +0100
++++ a2ps-4.13/encoding/iso5.edf	2007-09-25 17:57:55.000000000 +0100
+@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ Vector:
+ .notdef .notdef .notdef .notdef .notdef .notdef .notdef .notdef
+ .notdef .notdef .notdef .notdef .notdef .notdef .notdef .notdef space
+ exclam quotedbl numbersign dollar percent ampersand quoteright
+-parenleft parenright asterisk plus comma minus period slash zero one
++parenleft parenright asterisk plus comma hyphen period slash zero one
+ two three four five six seven eight nine colon semicolon less equal
+ greater question at A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y
+ Z bracketleft backslash bracketright asciicircum underscore quoteleft
diff --git a/a2ps.spec b/a2ps.spec
index 3a4e7ac..2f767e3 100644
--- a/a2ps.spec
+++ b/a2ps.spec
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ Patch4: a2ps-4.13-glibcpaper.patch
 Patch5: a2ps-4.13-varargs.patch
 Patch6: a2ps-tmpdir.patch
 Patch7: a2ps-sort.patch
+Patch8: a2ps-iso5-minus.patch
 # EUC-JP support
 Patch10: a2ps-4.13-eucjp.patch.bz2
 Patch11: a2ps-4.13-autoenc.patch
@@ -83,6 +84,7 @@ touch -r configure.in __timestamp_configure.in
 %patch5 -p1
 %patch6 -p1 -b .tmpdir
 %patch7 -p1 -b .sort
+%patch8 -p1 -b .iso5-minus
 
 %patch10 -p1 -b .euc
 %patch11 -p1 -b .ae
@@ -265,6 +267,9 @@ exit 0
 %dir %{_datadir}/a2ps
 
 %changelog
+* Tue Sep 25 2007 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com>
+- Make minus sign work in ISO-8859-5 (bug #252314).
+
 * Thu Aug 23 2007 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> 4.13b-67
 - More specific license tag.