diff --git a/net-irc/irssi/irssi-1.2.1.recipe b/net-irc/irssi/irssi-1.2.2.recipe
similarity index 90%
rename from net-irc/irssi/irssi-1.2.1.recipe
rename to net-irc/irssi/irssi-1.2.2.recipe
index 82850ec03..6089c0bbd 100644
--- a/net-irc/irssi/irssi-1.2.1.recipe
+++ b/net-irc/irssi/irssi-1.2.2.recipe
@@ -93,9 +93,9 @@ COPYRIGHT="1999-2019 Timo Sirainen
 	xavierog"
 LICENSE="GNU GPL v2
 	OpenSSL GPL2 exception"
-REVISION="2"
+REVISION="1"
 SOURCE_URI="https://github.com/irssi/irssi/releases/download/$portVersion/irssi-$portVersion.tar.gz"
-CHECKSUM_SHA256="fd8b0ef2544fdb691211293dded3dcf6ed87f21781db19e7df62ead797f18a06"
+CHECKSUM_SHA256="53182861d4d2be6db35fa7e3f0524a64d2a54a374307574dab5f5362bfea563c"
 
 ARCHITECTURES="?x86_gcc2 ?x86 x86_64"
 
@@ -141,6 +141,9 @@ BUILD()
 	autoreconf -fi
 	runConfigure ./configure --with-perl=module --with-socks \
 		--with-proxy --enable-true-color
+	# unichar typedef in SupportDefs.h
+	grep -Rl unichar src/ | xargs sed -i -e 's/unichar/unichar2/g'
+	grep -Rl unichar2 src/ | xargs sed -i -E 's/(g_[[:alpha:]_]*)unichar2/\1unichar/g'
 	make $jobArgs
 }