diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 98e2f2a69..9d0668815 100755
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -5,6 +5,11 @@ phpMyAdmin - Changelog
 $Id$
 $Source$
 
+2003-05-18 Marc Delisle  <lem9@users.sourceforge.net>
+    * left.php3, index.php3: bug 739348: because the db name is no longer
+      encoded in left.php3 (to accomodate html entities), we have to stop
+      decoding it, otherwise a db name with a plus sign is not selectable
+
 2003-05-15 Michal Cihar  <nijel@users.sourceforge.net>
     * Documentation, config.inc.php3, tbl_change.php3,
       libraries/config_import.lib.php3: Double sized textare for LONGTEXT is
diff --git a/index.php3 b/index.php3
index 1cb54bb09..4e30919c1 100755
--- a/index.php3
+++ b/index.php3
@@ -35,7 +35,9 @@ if (empty($HTTP_HOST)) {
  */
 // loic1: If left light mode -> urldecode the db name
 if (isset($lightm_db)) {
-    $db    = urldecode($lightm_db);
+// no longer urlencoded because of html entities in the db name
+//    $db    = urldecode($lightm_db);
+    $db    = $lightm_db;
     unset($lightm_db);
 }
 $url_query = PMA_generate_common_url(isset($db) ? $db : '');
diff --git a/left.php3 b/left.php3
index fedfd05fa..1554f70c6 100755
--- a/left.php3
+++ b/left.php3
@@ -9,7 +9,9 @@
  */
 require('./libraries/grab_globals.lib.php3');
 if (isset($lightm_db) && !empty($lightm_db)) {
-    $db = urldecode($lightm_db);
+// no longer urlencoded because of html entities in the db name
+//    $db = urldecode($lightm_db);
+    $db = $lightm_db;
 }
 
 if (!empty($db)) {