diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index a899359f..f4196009 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+  - fix handling of strip-tags with non-default delimiters (Mark West, messju)
+
 Version 2.6.7 (Feb 3, 2005)
 ---------------------------
 
diff --git a/libs/Smarty_Compiler.class.php b/libs/Smarty_Compiler.class.php
index bfd88e37..34ba9405 100644
--- a/libs/Smarty_Compiler.class.php
+++ b/libs/Smarty_Compiler.class.php
@@ -529,13 +529,13 @@ class Smarty_Compiler extends Smarty {
                     $this->_pop_tag('strip');
                     if (--$this->_strip_depth==0) { /* outermost closing {/strip} */
                         $this->_additional_newline = "\n";
-                        return $this->left_delimiter.$tag_command.$this->right_delimiter;
+                        return '{' . $tag_command . '}';
                     }
                 } else {
                     $this->_push_tag('strip');
                     if ($this->_strip_depth++==0) { /* outermost opening {strip} */
                         $this->_additional_newline = "";
-                        return $this->left_delimiter.$tag_command.$this->right_delimiter;
+                        return '{' . $tag_command . '}';
                     }
                 }
                 return '';