diff --git a/legacy/ecore/ChangeLog b/legacy/ecore/ChangeLog
index b66a6f6a25..3279eb54bf 100644
--- a/legacy/ecore/ChangeLog
+++ b/legacy/ecore/ChangeLog
@@ -616,3 +616,7 @@
 	* remove EAPI from _ecore_event_signal_user_new(). It should never
 	be exported outside of libecore.so
 	* stop leaking every system signal event.
+
+2012-04-16  Shinwoo Kim
+
+	* Check control charater and convert into printing character on Windows
diff --git a/legacy/ecore/NEWS b/legacy/ecore/NEWS
index 07f0e0e15a..e0071a89dd 100644
--- a/legacy/ecore/NEWS
+++ b/legacy/ecore/NEWS
@@ -95,6 +95,7 @@ Fixes:
      - possible 0 byte allocation.
     * ecore_win32/wince:
      - do not autorepeat Ctrl, Shift, Alt and Win keys.
+     - Check control charater and convert into printing character
     * ecore_con:
      - fix case where SSL certificates not being used.
      - post data corruption due to it not being copied to the con struct.
diff --git a/legacy/ecore/src/lib/ecore_wince/ecore_wince_event.c b/legacy/ecore/src/lib/ecore_wince/ecore_wince_event.c
index 764304720c..9afc06281f 100644
--- a/legacy/ecore/src/lib/ecore_wince/ecore_wince_event.c
+++ b/legacy/ecore/src/lib/ecore_wince/ecore_wince_event.c
@@ -489,6 +489,11 @@ _ecore_wince_event_char_get(int    key,
   *keysymbol = NULL;
   *keycompose = NULL;
 
+   /* check control charaters such as ^a(key:1), ^z(key:26) */
+   if ((key > 0) && (key < 27) &&
+       ((GetKeyState(VK_CONTROL) & 0x8000) ||
+        (GetKeyState(VK_CONTROL) & 0x8000))) key += 96;
+
    switch (key)
      {
      case VK_APP3: