diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index ff0e4e15f..07c59bd26 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 2005-02-26  Moritz Bunkus  <moritz@bunkus.org>
 
+	* mmg: bug fix: The job status in the job runner dialog was broken
+	on Unicode builds on all systems.
+
 	* mmg: bug fix: "Splitting by time" was not selectable on Windows
 	Unicode builds (problem with wxWidgets 2.5.3).
 
diff --git a/src/mmg/jobs.cpp b/src/mmg/jobs.cpp
index 5bae068d9..b7b98662c 100644
--- a/src/mmg/jobs.cpp
+++ b/src/mmg/jobs.cpp
@@ -274,7 +274,7 @@ void
 job_run_dialog::on_end_process(wxProcessEvent &evt) {
   int exit_code, ndx;
   wxString s;
-  const char *status;
+  const wxChar *status;
 
   process_input();
 
@@ -282,16 +282,16 @@ job_run_dialog::on_end_process(wxProcessEvent &evt) {
   exit_code = evt.GetExitCode();
   if (abort) {
     jobs[ndx].status = JOBS_ABORTED;
-    status = "aborted";
+    status = wxT("aborted");
   } else if (exit_code == 0) {
     jobs[ndx].status = JOBS_DONE;
-    status = "completed OK";
+    status = wxT("completed OK");
   } else if (exit_code == 1) {
     jobs[ndx].status = JOBS_DONE_WARNINGS;
-    status = "completed with warnings";
+    status = wxT("completed with warnings");
   } else {
     jobs[ndx].status = JOBS_FAILED;
-    status = "failed";
+    status = wxT("failed");
   }
   jobs[ndx].finished_on = time(NULL);