diff --git a/harbour/ChangeLog b/harbour/ChangeLog
index b1923c0898..f53a83cd8c 100644
--- a/harbour/ChangeLog
+++ b/harbour/ChangeLog
@@ -8,6 +8,14 @@
    2008-12-31 13:59 UTC+0100 Foo Bar (foo.bar foobar.org)
 */
 
+2008-09-22 16:37 UTC+0200 Przemyslaw Czerpak (druzus/at/priv.onet.pl)
+  * harbour/source/rtl/hbregex.c
+   * added hack to force linking newer PCRE versions not the one included
+     in BCC RTL when Harbour is compiled without HB_PCRE_REGEX_BCC.
+     If user application will uses regex expressions (directly or indirectly
+     by some RTL functions) then lining it without HBPCE should give link
+     time error that pcre_config() function is missing.
+
 2008-09-22 16:14 UTC+0200 Przemyslaw Czerpak (druzus/at/priv.onet.pl)
   * harbour/include/hbstack.h
   * harbour/source/vm/estack.c
diff --git a/harbour/source/rtl/hbregex.c b/harbour/source/rtl/hbregex.c
index fe7fb4e348..eea93e7981 100644
--- a/harbour/source/rtl/hbregex.c
+++ b/harbour/source/rtl/hbregex.c
@@ -543,6 +543,13 @@ static void * hb_pcre_grab( size_t size )
 
 HB_CALL_ON_STARTUP_BEGIN( _hb_regex_init_ )
 #if defined( HB_PCRE_REGEX )
+   /* Hack to force linking newer PCRE versions not the one included in BCC RTL */
+#  if defined( __BORLANDC__ )
+   {
+      int iUTF8Enabled;
+      pcre_config( PCRE_CONFIG_UTF8, &iUTF8Enabled );
+   }
+#  endif
    pcre_malloc = hb_pcre_grab;
    pcre_free = hb_xfree;
    pcre_stack_malloc = hb_pcre_grab;