diff --git a/development/poedit/poedit-gtkspell.patch b/development/poedit/poedit-gtkspell.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..a1299755fd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/development/poedit/poedit-gtkspell.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+Index: src/edframe.cpp
+===================================================================
+--- src/edframe.cpp	(revision 1450)
++++ src/edframe.cpp	(working copy)
+@@ -829,14 +829,26 @@
+     wxASSERT_MSG( textview, _T("wxTextCtrl is supposed to use GtkTextView") );
+     GtkSpell *spell = gtkspell_get_from_text_view(textview);
+ 
+-    if (spell)
+-        gtkspell_detach(spell);
++    printf("init spellchecker for %s\n", (const char*)lang.ToAscii());
+ 
+     if (enable)
+     {
+         GError *err = NULL;
+-        if (!gtkspell_new_attach(textview, lang.ToAscii(), &err))
++        bool ok;
++
++        if (spell)
+         {
++            printf("gtkspell_set_language\n");
++            ok = gtkspell_set_language(spell, lang.ToAscii(), &err);
++        }
++        else
++        {
++            printf("gtkspell_new_attach\n");
++            ok = gtkspell_new_attach(textview, lang.ToAscii(), &err) != NULL;
++        }
++
++        if (!ok)
++        {
+ #if 0
+             // FIXME: report the failure in some less intrusive way than the
+             //        code that was used here; say for which language, too
+@@ -846,6 +858,14 @@
+             g_error_free(err);
+         }
+     }
++    else
++    {
++        if (spell)
++        {
++            printf("gtkspell_detach\n");
++            gtkspell_detach(spell);
++        }
++    }
+ }
+ #endif // __WXGTK__
+ 
diff --git a/development/poedit/poedit-gtkspell.patch.gz b/development/poedit/poedit-gtkspell.patch.gz
deleted file mode 100644
index 52ea7cf652..0000000000
Binary files a/development/poedit/poedit-gtkspell.patch.gz and /dev/null differ
diff --git a/development/poedit/poedit.SlackBuild b/development/poedit/poedit.SlackBuild
index 2e665ad14a..f967504ac7 100644
--- a/development/poedit/poedit.SlackBuild
+++ b/development/poedit/poedit.SlackBuild
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ chown -R root:root .
 chmod -R a-s,u+rw,go+r-w .
 
 # Patch to fix program crash when using localized LANG bug #276
-zcat $CWD/poedit-gtkspell.patch.gz | patch -p0 --verbose --backup --suffix=.orig
+patch -p0 < $CWD/poedit-gtkspell.patch
 
 CFLAGS="$SLKCFLAGS" \
 CXXFLAGS="$SLKCFLAGS" \