diff --git a/htop-non-printable-characters.patch b/htop-non-printable-characters.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3bc6b46
--- /dev/null
+++ b/htop-non-printable-characters.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+Index: htop-0.8.1/RichString.c
+===================================================================
+--- htop-0.8.1.orig/RichString.c
++++ htop-0.8.1/RichString.c
+@@ -56,11 +56,11 @@ inline void RichString_appendn(RichStrin
+    if (len<0)
+       return;
+    int last = MIN(RICHSTRING_MAXLEN - 1, len + this->len);
+    for (int i = this->len, j = 0; i < last; i++, j++) {
+       memset(&this->chstr[i], 0, sizeof(this->chstr[i]));
+-      this->chstr[i].chars[0] = data[j];
++      this->chstr[i].chars[0] = (data[j] > 31) ? data[j] : '?';
+       this->chstr[i].attr = attrs;
+    }
+    this->chstr[last].chars[0] = 0;
+    this->len = last;
+ }
diff --git a/htop.changes b/htop.changes
index f6977ba..3bfcc13 100644
--- a/htop.changes
+++ b/htop.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,14 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Fri Nov 21 10:57:51 CET 2008 - thoenig@suse.de
+
+- add python to build requires 
+
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Fri Nov 21 09:45:29 CET 2008 - thoenig@suse.de
+
+- add patch htop-non-printable-characters.patch: Don't try to show
+  non-printable charcaters (bnc#440951)
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Tue Sep 23 19:15:12 CEST 2008 - thoenig@suse.de
 
diff --git a/htop.spec b/htop.spec
index e33ef9f..3943e64 100644
--- a/htop.spec
+++ b/htop.spec
@@ -22,13 +22,14 @@ Name:           htop
 Url:            http://htop.sourceforge.net
 Summary:        An Interactive text-mode Process Viewer for Linux
 Version:        0.8.1
-Release:        1
+Release:        2
 License:        GPL v2 or later
 Group:          System/Monitoring
 Source0:        %{name}-%{version}.tar.bz2
 Patch0:         %{name}-desktop-file-fix-thoenig-01.patch
+Patch1:         %{name}-non-printable-characters.patch
 BuildRoot:      %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-build
-BuildRequires:  ncurses-devel
+BuildRequires:  ncurses-devel python
 AutoReqProv:    on
 
 %description
@@ -46,6 +47,7 @@ Authors:
 %prep
 %setup
 %patch0 -p0
+%patch1 -p1
 
 %build
 %configure \
@@ -67,6 +69,11 @@ rm -rf %{_buildroot}
 %{_mandir}/*/%{name}*
 
 %changelog
+* Fri Nov 21 2008 thoenig@suse.de
+- add python to build requires
+* Fri Nov 21 2008 thoenig@suse.de
+- add patch htop-non-printable-characters.patch: Don't try to show
+  non-printable charcaters (bnc#440951)
 * Tue Sep 23 2008 thoenig@suse.de
 - Linux-VServer support
 - battery meter