diff --git a/Doc/library/string.rst b/Doc/library/string.rst
index 1a9b630..1076cdb 100644
--- a/Doc/library/string.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/string.rst
@@ -755,8 +755,17 @@
 
 * *idpattern* -- This is the regular expression describing the pattern for
   non-braced placeholders.  The default value is the regular expression
-  ``[_a-z][_a-z0-9]*``.  If this is given and *braceidpattern* is ``None``
-  this pattern will also apply to braced placeholders.
+  ``(?-i:[_a-zA-Z][_a-zA-Z0-9]*)``.  If this is given and *braceidpattern* is
+  ``None`` this pattern will also apply to braced placeholders.
+
+  .. note::
+
+     Since default *flags* is ``re.IGNORECASE``, pattern ``[a-z]`` can match
+     with some non-ASCII characters. That's why we use local ``-i`` flag here.
+
+     While *flags* is kept to ``re.IGNORECASE`` for backward compatibility,
+     you can override it to ``0`` or ``re.IGNORECASE | re.ASCII`` when
+     subclassing.  It's simple way to avoid unexpected match like above example.
 
   .. versionchanged:: 3.7
      *braceidpattern* can be used to define separate patterns used inside and
diff --git a/Lib/string.py b/Lib/string.py
index b46e60c..a3e6d91 100644
--- a/Lib/string.py
+++ b/Lib/string.py
@@ -79,7 +79,11 @@
     """A string class for supporting $-substitutions."""
 
     delimiter = '$'
-    idpattern = r'[_a-z][_a-z0-9]*'
+    # r'[a-z]' matches to non-ASCII letters when used with IGNORECASE,
+    # but without ASCII flag.  We can't add re.ASCII to flags because of
+    # backward compatibility.  So we use local -i flag and [a-zA-Z] pattern.
+    # See https://bugs.python.org/issue31672
+    idpattern = r'(?-i:[_a-zA-Z][_a-zA-Z0-9]*)'
     braceidpattern = None
     flags = _re.IGNORECASE
 
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_string.py b/Lib/test/test_string.py
index 6e241ac..3480459 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_string.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_string.py
@@ -270,6 +270,12 @@
         raises(ValueError, s.substitute, dict(who='tim'))
         s = Template('$who likes $100')
         raises(ValueError, s.substitute, dict(who='tim'))
+        # Template.idpattern should match to only ASCII characters.
+        # https://bugs.python.org/issue31672
+        s = Template("$who likes $\u0131")  # (DOTLESS I)
+        raises(ValueError, s.substitute, dict(who='tim'))
+        s = Template("$who likes $\u0130")  # (LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I WITH DOT ABOVE)
+        raises(ValueError, s.substitute, dict(who='tim'))
 
     def test_idpattern_override(self):
         class PathPattern(Template):
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2017-10-12-02-47-16.bpo-31672.DaOkVd.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2017-10-12-02-47-16.bpo-31672.DaOkVd.rst
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b8de1f3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2017-10-12-02-47-16.bpo-31672.DaOkVd.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+``idpattern`` in ``string.Template`` matched some non-ASCII characters. Now
+it uses ``-i`` regular expression local flag to avoid non-ASCII characters.