diff --git a/editors/ht/Makefile b/editors/ht/Makefile
index 66a5294803a..c17a6477eb6 100644
--- a/editors/ht/Makefile
+++ b/editors/ht/Makefile
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
-# $OpenBSD: Makefile,v 1.30 2017/07/26 22:45:19 sthen Exp $
+# $OpenBSD: Makefile,v 1.31 2018/06/27 20:43:11 benoit Exp $
 
 COMMENT =		file editor/viewer/analyzer for executables
 
 DISTNAME =		ht-2.1.0
 CATEGORIES =		editors
-REVISION =		3
+REVISION =		4
 
 HOMEPAGE =		http://hte.sourceforge.net/
 
diff --git a/editors/ht/patches/patch-httag_h b/editors/ht/patches/patch-httag_h
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..533379b9ade
--- /dev/null
+++ b/editors/ht/patches/patch-httag_h
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+$OpenBSD: patch-httag_h,v 1.1 2018/06/27 20:43:11 benoit Exp $
+
+fix arch where char are unsigned by default
+
+--- httag.h.orig	Wed Jun 27 22:32:27 2018
++++ httag.h	Wed Jun 27 22:33:33 2018
+@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@
+ } PACKED;
+ 
+ struct ht_tag_flags_s {
+-	char bitidx;
++	signed char bitidx;
+ 	const char *desc;
+ } PACKED;
+