diff -up dmidecode-2.11/CHANGELOG.dmidecode_fix dmidecode-2.11/CHANGELOG
--- dmidecode-2.11/CHANGELOG.dmidecode_fix	2012-03-12 10:25:01.980020072 +0100
+++ dmidecode-2.11/CHANGELOG	2012-03-12 10:25:20.123020332 +0100
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2011-11-18  Jean Delvare  <khali@linux-fr.org>
+
+	* dmidecode.c: Properly print the hexadecimal value of invalid
+	  string characters.
+
 2011-11-14  Anton Arapov  <anton@redhat.com>
 
 	* dmidecode.c: Make dmi_chassis_type aware of the lock bit.
diff -up dmidecode-2.11/dmidecode.c.dmidecode_fix dmidecode-2.11/dmidecode.c
--- dmidecode-2.11/dmidecode.c.dmidecode_fix	2012-03-12 10:25:11.261020199 +0100
+++ dmidecode-2.11/dmidecode.c	2012-03-12 10:25:20.124020332 +0100
@@ -197,7 +197,7 @@ static void dmi_dump(const struct dmi_he
 					printf("%s\t", prefix);
 					for (j = 0; j < 16 && j < l - (row << 4); j++)
 						printf("%s%02X", j ? " " : "",
-						       s[(row << 4) + j]);
+						       (unsigned char)s[(row << 4) + j]);
 					printf("\n");
 				}
 				/* String isn't filtered yet so do it now */