diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 29dd413..c25847d 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,11 +1,17 @@
 === xdg-utils 1.x.x ====
 
 2009-10-12 Fathi Boudra <fabo@freedesktop.org>
+   * Fix xdg-open to handle URL with '#' symbol. (BR23319, BR24375)
+
+2009-10-12 Fathi Boudra <fabo@freedesktop.org>
+   * Remove bash requirement to xdg-open and xdg-email. (BR20015)
+
+2009-10-12 Fathi Boudra <fabo@freedesktop.org>
    * Update xdg-settings - Thanks to Mike Mammarella:
      This fixes some issues where user-generated icons would be detected as
      the official .desktop file for a binary, rather than the actual version.
      (It resolves forward and compares binaries rather than resolving backward
-     to a .desktop file from a binary.)
+     to a .desktop file from a binary)
 
 2009-09-28 Rex Dieter <rdieter@fedoraproject.org>
    * use kde-open, if available (ie, kde4)
diff --git a/scripts/xdg-email b/scripts/xdg-email
index e99cbd7..b71def8 100755
--- a/scripts/xdg-email
+++ b/scripts/xdg-email
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/bin/bash
+#!/bin/sh
 #---------------------------------------------
 #   xdg-email
 #
@@ -440,8 +440,9 @@ open_generic()
     for browser in $BROWSER; do
         if [ x"$browser" != x"" ]; then
 
-            IFS=' '
-            browser_with_arg=${browser//'%s'/"$1"}
+            browser_with_arg=`printf "$browser" "$1" 2>/dev/null`
+            if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then browser_with_arg=$browser;
+            fi
 
             if [ x"$browser_with_arg" = x"$browser" ]; then "$browser" "$1";
             else $browser_with_arg;
diff --git a/scripts/xdg-open b/scripts/xdg-open
index 9add3b3..a62d2e3 100755
--- a/scripts/xdg-open
+++ b/scripts/xdg-open
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/bin/bash
+#!/bin/sh
 #---------------------------------------------
 #   xdg-open
 #
@@ -386,8 +386,9 @@ open_generic()
     for browser in $BROWSER; do
         if [ x"$browser" != x"" ]; then
 
-            IFS=' '
-            browser_with_arg=${browser//'%s'/"$1"}
+            browser_with_arg=`printf "$browser" "$1" 2>/dev/null`
+            if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then browser_with_arg=$browser;
+            fi
 
             if [ x"$browser_with_arg" = x"$browser" ]; then "$browser" "$1";
             else $browser_with_arg;