diff --git a/Changes b/Changes
index 608668c..269cc9d 100644
--- a/Changes
+++ b/Changes
@@ -2,6 +2,9 @@ Changes for Perl extension DateTime-Tiny
 
 {{$NEXT}}
 
+1.07
+    - Bugfix: only match ASCII digits in from_string() method.
+
 1.06      2016-06-23 09:43:41-04:00 America/New_York
     - No changes from 1.05
 
diff --git a/lib/DateTime/Tiny.pm b/lib/DateTime/Tiny.pm
index 645244e..e793fb7 100644
--- a/lib/DateTime/Tiny.pm
+++ b/lib/DateTime/Tiny.pm
@@ -197,7 +197,8 @@ sub from_string {
 		require Carp;
 		Carp::croak("Did not provide a string to from_string");
 	}
-	unless ( $string =~ /^(\d\d\d\d)-(\d\d)-(\d\d)T(\d\d):(\d\d):(\d\d)$/ ) {
+    my $d = '[0-9]'; # backwards-compatible way of not matching anything but ASCII digits
+	unless ( $string =~ /^($d$d$d$d)-($d$d)-($d$d)T($d$d):($d$d):($d$d)$/ ) {
 		require Carp;
 		Carp::croak("Invalid time format (does not match ISO 8601)");
 	}
diff --git a/t/02_main.t b/t/02_main.t
index 55ac54d..03b3a41 100644
--- a/t/02_main.t
+++ b/t/02_main.t
@@ -8,8 +8,9 @@ BEGIN {
 	$^W = 1;	
 }
 
-use Test::More tests => 31;
+use Test::More tests => 32;
 use DateTime::Tiny;
+use utf8;
 
 
 
@@ -114,3 +115,10 @@ SCOPE: {
 		$tiny, '->from_string ok',
 	);
 }
+
+SCOPE: {
+    eval { DateTime::Tiny->from_string('୭୮୯௦-௧௨-௩௪T௫௬:௭௮:௯౦') };
+    my $error = $@;
+    like $error, qr/\QInvalid time format (does not match ISO 8601)/,
+      'Only ASCII digits are valid in datetime strings';
+}