diff --git a/src/changes/changes.xml b/src/changes/changes.xml
index 1fdf448e..e1cb2553 100644
--- a/src/changes/changes.xml
+++ b/src/changes/changes.xml
@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@
       <action type="fix" dev="ggregory" due-to="Dávid Szigecsán">Migrate CSVFormat#print(File, Charset) to NIO #445.</action>
       <action type="fix" dev="ggregory" due-to="Dávid Szigecsán">Fix documentation for CSVFormat private constructor #466.</action>
       <action type="fix" issue="CSV-294" dev="ggregory" due-to="Joern Huxhorn, Gary Gregory">CSVFormat does not support explicit " as escape char.</action>
+      <action type="fix" issue="CSV-150" dev="ggregory" due-to="dota17, Gary Gregory, Jörn Huxhorn">CSVFormat does not support explicit " as escape char.</action>
       <!-- UPDATE -->
       <action type="update" dev="ggregory" due-to="Dependabot">Bump commons-codec:commons-codec from 1.16.1 to 1.17.1 #422, #449.</action>
       <action type="update" dev="ggregory" due-to="Gary Gregory">Bump org.apache.commons:commons-parent from 69 to 74 #435, #452, #465, #468.</action>
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/csv/Lexer.java b/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/csv/Lexer.java
index e2aec718..489166f7 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/csv/Lexer.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/csv/Lexer.java
@@ -32,19 +32,12 @@ final class Lexer implements Closeable {
     private static final String CR_STRING = Character.toString(Constants.CR);
     private static final String LF_STRING = Character.toString(Constants.LF);
 
-    /**
-     * Constant char to use for disabling comments, escapes, and encapsulation. The value -2 is used because it
-     * won't be confused with an EOF signal (-1), and because the Unicode value {@code FFFE} would be encoded as two
-     * chars (using surrogates) and thus there should never be a collision with a real text char.
-     */
-    private static final char DISABLED = '\ufffe';
-
     private final char[] delimiter;
     private final char[] delimiterBuf;
     private final char[] escapeDelimiterBuf;
-    private final char escape;
-    private final char quoteChar;
-    private final char commentStart;
+    private final int escape;
+    private final int quoteChar;
+    private final int commentStart;
     private final boolean ignoreSurroundingSpaces;
     private final boolean ignoreEmptyLines;
     private final boolean lenientEof;
@@ -197,8 +190,8 @@ final class Lexer implements Closeable {
         return ch == Constants.LF || ch == Constants.CR || ch == Constants.UNDEFINED;
     }
 
-    private char mapNullToDisabled(final Character c) {
-        return c == null ? DISABLED : c.charValue(); // N.B. Explicit (un)boxing is intentional
+    private int mapNullToDisabled(final Character c) {
+        return c == null ? -1 : c.charValue(); // Explicit unboxing is intentional
     }
 
     /**
@@ -512,4 +505,5 @@ final class Lexer implements Closeable {
             buffer.setLength(length);
         }
     }
+
 }
diff --git a/src/test/java/org/apache/commons/csv/issues/JiraCsv150Test.java b/src/test/java/org/apache/commons/csv/issues/JiraCsv150Test.java
index 415fe296..1ede9f23 100644
--- a/src/test/java/org/apache/commons/csv/issues/JiraCsv150Test.java
+++ b/src/test/java/org/apache/commons/csv/issues/JiraCsv150Test.java
@@ -23,10 +23,8 @@ import java.io.StringReader;
 
 import org.apache.commons.csv.CSVFormat;
 import org.apache.commons.csv.CSVParser;
-import org.junit.jupiter.api.Disabled;
 import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
 
-@Disabled
 public class JiraCsv150Test {
 
     private void testDisable(final CSVFormat csvFormat, final StringReader stringReader) throws IOException {