diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 2fa3821f..15001b9c 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,6 +1,9 @@
  (Format: Year/Month/Day)
 Changes for 1.0rc2:
 *06/06/25:
+   * Explicitly map NoSymbol to keycode 0 (thanks Julien Trolet)
+     (seems to be assigned to several keycodes)
+     FbTk/KeyUtil.cc
    * Menu aware of text encodings (Simon)
      - new menu file options: 
          [encoding] {CODESET}
diff --git a/src/FbTk/KeyUtil.cc b/src/FbTk/KeyUtil.cc
index cb0db937..4300cd7c 100644
--- a/src/FbTk/KeyUtil.cc
+++ b/src/FbTk/KeyUtil.cc
@@ -172,8 +172,10 @@ void KeyUtil::grabKey(unsigned int key, unsigned int mod) {
 unsigned int KeyUtil::getKey(const char *keystr) {
     if (!keystr)
         return 0;
-    return XKeysymToKeycode(App::instance()->display(),
-                            XStringToKeysym(keystr));
+    KeySym sym = XStringToKeysym(keystr);
+    if (sym==NoSymbol)
+        return 0;
+    return XKeysymToKeycode(App::instance()->display(), sym);
 }