diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index f2abea2ea..b13b25860 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 2002-04-16  Sven Wischnowsky  <wischnow@zsh.org>
 
+	* 16991: Completion/Base/Utility/_values: make _values not use
+	-Q
+
 	* 16990: Src/Zle/zle_tricky.c: treat backslashed bangs in
 	double quotes specially in get_comp_string(), they are more
 	like $s there
diff --git a/Completion/Base/Utility/_values b/Completion/Base/Utility/_values
index 00249e05b..5cfa4bd30 100644
--- a/Completion/Base/Utility/_values
+++ b/Completion/Base/Utility/_values
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ if compvalues -i "$@"; then
     else
       compvalues -d descr
       if [[ ${#noargs}+${#args}+${#opts} -ne 1 ]] && compvalues -s sep; then
-        sep=( "-qQS" "$sep" )
+        sep=( "-qS" "$sep" )
       else
         sep=()
       fi