diff --git a/app-editors/retext/patches/retext-7.0.0.patchset b/app-editors/retext/patches/retext-7.0.0.patchset
deleted file mode 100644
index 0a06e4042..000000000
--- a/app-editors/retext/patches/retext-7.0.0.patchset
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,38 +0,0 @@
-From 64086ebfcd26e89474df38e91430507d4ef0b03d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: Jerome Duval <jerome.duval@gmail.com>
-Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2017 11:43:21 +0100
-Subject: find_library() doesn't work on Haiku.
-
-
-diff --git a/ReText/xsettings.py b/ReText/xsettings.py
-index a5647a0..0fbfa4d 100644
---- a/ReText/xsettings.py
-+++ b/ReText/xsettings.py
-@@ -53,15 +53,15 @@ class XSettingsParseError(XSettingsError):
- 
- def get_raw_xsettings(display=0):
- 	# initialize the libraries
--	xcb_library_name = ctypes.util.find_library('xcb')
--	if xcb_library_name is None:
--		raise XSettingsError('Xcb library not found')
--	xcb = ctypes.CDLL(xcb_library_name)
--
--	c_library_name = ctypes.util.find_library('c')
--	if c_library_name is None:
--		raise XSettingsError('C library not found')
--	c = ctypes.CDLL(c_library_name)
-+	# xcb_library_name = ctypes.util.find_library('xcb')
-+	# if xcb_library_name is None:
-+	#	raise XSettingsError('Xcb library not found')
-+	xcb = ctypes.CDLL('libxcb.so.1')
-+
-+	#c_library_name = ctypes.util.find_library('c')
-+	#if c_library_name is None:
-+	#	raise XSettingsError('C library not found')
-+	c = ctypes.CDLL('libroot.so')
- 
- 	# set some args and return types
- 	xcb.xcb_connect.argtypes = [ctypes.c_char_p, ctypes.POINTER(ctypes.c_int)]
--- 
-2.10.2
-
diff --git a/app-editors/retext/patches/retext-7.0.1.patchset b/app-editors/retext/patches/retext-7.0.1.patchset
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..f05a0c5bc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app-editors/retext/patches/retext-7.0.1.patchset
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+From 33686e58997fa8a035474e01e8a80dbb46070d4d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Jerome Duval <jerome.duval@gmail.com>
+Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2017 21:57:44 +0200
+Subject: read/write with encoding utf-8.
+
+
+diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
+index f065e42..a3e5d03 100755
+--- a/setup.py
++++ b/setup.py
+@@ -112,14 +112,14 @@ class retext_install(install):
+ 		desktop_file_path = join(self.install_data, 'share', 'applications',
+ 		                         'me.mitya57.ReText.desktop')
+ 		icon_path = join(self.orig_install_data, 'share', 'retext', 'icons', 'retext.svg')
+-		with open(desktop_file_path) as desktop_file:
++		with open(desktop_file_path, encoding="utf-8") as desktop_file:
+ 			desktop_contents = desktop_file.read()
+ 		print('fixing Exec line in %s' % desktop_file_path)
+ 		desktop_contents = desktop_contents.replace('Exec=retext', 'Exec=%s' % retext)
+ 		if self.orig_install_data != '/usr':
+ 			print('fixing Icon line in %s' % desktop_file_path)
+ 			desktop_contents = desktop_contents.replace('Icon=retext', 'Icon=%s' % icon_path)
+-		with open(desktop_file_path, 'w') as desktop_file:
++		with open(desktop_file_path, 'w', encoding="utf-8") as desktop_file:
+ 			desktop_file.write(desktop_contents)
+ 
+ 
+-- 
+2.13.1
+
diff --git a/app-editors/retext/retext-7.0.0.recipe b/app-editors/retext/retext-7.0.1.recipe
similarity index 93%
rename from app-editors/retext/retext-7.0.0.recipe
rename to app-editors/retext/retext-7.0.1.recipe
index 39e99f515..082aa8b4b 100644
--- a/app-editors/retext/retext-7.0.0.recipe
+++ b/app-editors/retext/retext-7.0.1.recipe
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ COPYRIGHT="2011–2016 Dmitry Shachnev
 LICENSE="GNU GPL v3"
 REVISION="1"
 SOURCE_URI="$HOMEPAGE/archive/$portVersion.tar.gz"
-CHECKSUM_SHA256="7df3fcdad1d1f9a046ae33591b54dd7a6894de64eb0370f2dabf4cd75eb66586"
+CHECKSUM_SHA256="c32ccdbcf31094258c792bc0589ff3ff212dea85466d776b7f60fa7b39da4b6c"
 PATCHES="retext-$portVersion.patchset"
 
 ARCHITECTURES="any"
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ BUILD_REQUIRES="
 	setuptools_python3
 	"
 BUILD_PREREQUIRES="
+	cmd:lrelease
 	cmd:python3
 	"