diff --git a/package/htop/0001-MetersPanel-remove-0xe2-from-MetersPanel.c.patch b/package/htop/0001-MetersPanel-remove-0xe2-from-MetersPanel.c.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..81f9d1bd97
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/htop/0001-MetersPanel-remove-0xe2-from-MetersPanel.c.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
+From ae32d292ca641c08b6db8d2f7cfcce2a54d00835 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Romain Naour <romain.naour@gmail.com>
+Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2018 23:09:24 +0100
+Subject: [PATCH] MetersPanel: remove 0xe2 from MetersPanel.c
+
+This non ascii character trigger an issue with MakeHeader.py.
+
+./scripts/MakeHeader.py MetersPanel.c
+Traceback (most recent call last):
+  File "./scripts/MakeHeader.py", line 32, in <module>
+    for line in file.readlines():
+  File "[...]/output/host/lib/python3.6/encodings/ascii.py", line 26, in decode
+    return codecs.ascii_decode(input, self.errors)[0]
+UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe2 in position 956: ordinal not in range(128)
+
+http://autobuild.buildroot.net/results/8ed/8edb78b054a265447fd0e83f67cba5f978be4ed6/build-end.log
+
+Signed-off-by: Romain Naour <romain.naour@gmail.com>
+---
+ MetersPanel.c | 2 +-
+ MetersPanel.h | 2 +-
+ 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/MetersPanel.c b/MetersPanel.c
+index 3cf3e07..47296a4 100644
+--- a/MetersPanel.c
++++ b/MetersPanel.c
+@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ static const char* const MetersFunctions[] = {"Style ", "Move  ", "
+ static const char* const MetersKeys[] = {"Space", "Enter", "  ", "Del", "F10"};
+ static int MetersEvents[] = {' ', 13, ERR, KEY_DC, KEY_F(10)};
+ 
+-// We avoid UTF-8 arrows ← → here as they might display full-width on Chinese
++// We avoid UTF-8 arrows <- -> here as they might display full-width on Chinese
+ // terminals, breaking our aligning.
+ // In <http://unicode.org/reports/tr11/>, arrows (U+2019..U+2199) are
+ // considered "Ambiguous characters".
+diff --git a/MetersPanel.h b/MetersPanel.h
+index e00169c..e80754a 100644
+--- a/MetersPanel.h
++++ b/MetersPanel.h
+@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ struct MetersPanel_ {
+ 
+ // Note: In code the meters are known to have bar/text/graph "Modes", but in UI
+ // we call them "Styles".
+-// We avoid UTF-8 arrows ← → here as they might display full-width on Chinese
++// We avoid UTF-8 arrows <- -> here as they might display full-width on Chinese
+ // terminals, breaking our aligning.
+ // In <http://unicode.org/reports/tr11/>, arrows (U+2019..U+2199) are
+ // considered "Ambiguous characters".
+-- 
+2.14.3
+