diff --git a/srcpkgs/newsbeuter/patches/no_translit.patch b/srcpkgs/newsbeuter/patches/no_translit.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..d33e4db8e88
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/newsbeuter/patches/no_translit.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,55 @@
+From 12551d798f145d5dc5b4f910914f95f2c0492428 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: "V.Krishn" <vkrishn4@gmail.com>
+Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2015 04:00:33 +0530
+Subject: [PATCH] Remove iconv translit references
+
+---
+ src/stflpp.cpp |    4 ++--
+ src/utils.cpp  |    3 +--
+ 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/src/stflpp.cpp b/src/stflpp.cpp
+index fb6dcae..7893679 100644
+--- src/stflpp.cpp
++++ src/stflpp.cpp
+@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ namespace newsbeuter {
+  */
+ 
+ stfl::form::form(const std::string& text) : f(0) {
+-	ipool = stfl_ipool_create((std::string(nl_langinfo(CODESET)) + "//TRANSLIT").c_str());
++	ipool = stfl_ipool_create((std::string(nl_langinfo(CODESET))).c_str());
+ 	if (!ipool) {
+ 		throw exception(errno);
+ 	}
+@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ static std::mutex quote_mtx;
+ 
+ std::string stfl::quote(const std::string& text) {
+ 	std::lock_guard<std::mutex> lock(quote_mtx);
+-	stfl_ipool * ipool = stfl_ipool_create((std::string(nl_langinfo(CODESET)) + "//TRANSLIT").c_str());
++	stfl_ipool * ipool = stfl_ipool_create((std::string(nl_langinfo(CODESET))).c_str());
+ 	std::string retval = stfl_ipool_fromwc(ipool,stfl_quote(stfl_ipool_towc(ipool,text.c_str())));
+ 	stfl_ipool_destroy(ipool);
+ 	return retval;
+diff --git a/src/utils.cpp b/src/utils.cpp
+index ce4b36b..67d780c 100644
+--- src/utils.cpp
++++ src/utils.cpp
+@@ -262,7 +262,7 @@ std::string utils::convert_text(const std::string& text, const std::string& toco
+ 	if (strcasecmp(tocode.c_str(), fromcode.c_str())==0)
+ 		return text;
+ 
+-	iconv_t cd = ::iconv_open((tocode + "//TRANSLIT").c_str(), fromcode.c_str());
++	iconv_t cd = ::iconv_open((tocode).c_str(), fromcode.c_str());
+ 
+ 	if (cd == reinterpret_cast<iconv_t>(-1))
+ 		return result;
+@@ -498,7 +498,6 @@ std::wstring utils::str2wstr(const std::string& str) {
+ 
+ std::string utils::wstr2str(const std::wstring& wstr) {
+ 	std::string codeset = nl_langinfo(CODESET);
+-	codeset.append("//TRANSLIT");
+ 	struct stfl_ipool * ipool = stfl_ipool_create(codeset.c_str());
+ 	std::string result = stfl_ipool_fromwc(ipool, wstr.c_str());
+ 	stfl_ipool_destroy(ipool);
+-- 
+1.7.10.4
diff --git a/srcpkgs/newsbeuter/template b/srcpkgs/newsbeuter/template
index 383c17479a1..683de25afba 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/newsbeuter/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/newsbeuter/template
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # Template file for 'newsbeuter'
 pkgname=newsbeuter
 version=r2.9
-revision=8
+revision=9
 hostmakedepends="pkg-config perl"
 makedepends="stfl-devel json-c-devel libxml2-devel libcurl-devel sqlite-devel libressl-devel"
 short_desc="Newsbeuter is the Mutt of RSS feed readers"
@@ -19,4 +19,5 @@ do_build() {
 }
 do_install() {
 	make PREFIX=/usr DESTDIR=${DESTDIR} install
+	vlicense LICENSE
 }