Index: src/OFString.h
==================================================================
--- src/OFString.h
+++ src/OFString.h
@@ -30,10 +30,11 @@
 /**
  * \brief The encoding of a string.
  */
 typedef enum of_string_encoding_t {
 	OF_STRING_ENCODING_UTF_8,
+	OF_STRING_ENCODING_ASCII,
 	OF_STRING_ENCODING_ISO_8859_1,
 	OF_STRING_ENCODING_ISO_8859_15,
 	OF_STRING_ENCODING_WINDOWS_1252,
 	OF_STRING_ENCODING_AUTODETECT = 0xFF
 } of_string_encoding_t;

Index: src/OFString.m
==================================================================
--- src/OFString.m
+++ src/OFString.m
@@ -479,14 +479,19 @@
 		memset(s, 0, sizeof(*s));
 
 		s->cString = [self allocMemoryWithSize: cStringLength + 1];
 		s->cStringLength = cStringLength;
 
-		if (encoding == OF_STRING_ENCODING_UTF_8) {
+		if (encoding == OF_STRING_ENCODING_UTF_8 ||
+		    encoding == OF_STRING_ENCODING_ASCII) {
 			switch (of_string_check_utf8(cString, cStringLength,
 			    &s->length)) {
 			case 1:
+				if (encoding == OF_STRING_ENCODING_ASCII)
+					@throw [OFInvalidEncodingException
+					    newWithClass: isa];
+
 				s->isUTF8 = YES;
 				break;
 			case -1:
 				@throw [OFInvalidEncodingException
 				    newWithClass: isa];