diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 8c89a5e9df..e77574aa33 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2017-10-25  Mike FABIAN  <mfabian@redhat.com>
+
+	* localedata/locales/te_IN (LC_MESSAGES): Fix noexpr by including
+	the first letter of nostr in the regexp. It agrees with CLDR now.
+	Also make it more readable by using ASCII where possible.
+
 2017-10-24  Mike FABIAN  <mfabian@redhat.com>
 
 	* localedata/locales/km_KH (LC_MESSAGES): Fix yestr and nostr.
diff --git a/localedata/locales/te_IN b/localedata/locales/te_IN
index c9cccafde6..e178bede6d 100644
--- a/localedata/locales/te_IN
+++ b/localedata/locales/te_IN
@@ -149,8 +149,8 @@ END LC_TIME
 
 
 LC_MESSAGES
-yesexpr "<U005E><U005B><U002B><U0031><U0079><U0059><U0C05><U005D>"
-noexpr  "<U005E><U005B><U002D><U0030><U006E><U004E><U0C15><U005D>"
+yesexpr "^[+1yY<U0C05>]"
+noexpr  "^[-0nN<U0C35>]"
 yesstr  "<U0C05><U0C35><U0C41><U0C28><U0C41>"
 nostr   "<U0C35><U0C26><U0C4D><U0C26><U0C41>"
 END LC_MESSAGES