diff --git a/misc/uni2ascii/README b/misc/uni2ascii/README
index 4987336817..b1ffd7244d 100644
--- a/misc/uni2ascii/README
+++ b/misc/uni2ascii/README
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+uni2ascii (convert UTF-8 into 7-bit ASCII and vice versa)
+
 uni2ascii provides conversion in both directions between UTF-8 Unicode
 and more than thirty 7-bit ASCII equivalents, including HTML numeric
 character references, various escapes and hexadecimal. Such ASCII
diff --git a/misc/uni2ascii/uni2ascii.SlackBuild b/misc/uni2ascii/uni2ascii.SlackBuild
index d862b634a9..d556d9c413 100644
--- a/misc/uni2ascii/uni2ascii.SlackBuild
+++ b/misc/uni2ascii/uni2ascii.SlackBuild
@@ -1,13 +1,22 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 
 # Slackware build script for uni2ascii
-# Written by Oleg O. Chukaev <oleg.chukaev@mail.ru>
+# Written by Oleg O. Chukaev
+# Modified and now maintained by B. Watson <urchlay@slackware.uk>
+
+# Original version of this script had no license. Modified version
+# licensed under the WTFPL. See http://www.wtfpl.net/txt/copying/ for details.
+
+# 20240904 bkw:
+# - new maintainer.
+# - updated for v4.20.
+# - license as WTFPL.
 
 cd $(dirname $0) ; CWD=$(pwd)
 
 PRGNAM=uni2ascii
-VERSION=${VERSION:-4.18}
-BUILD=${BUILD:-2}
+VERSION=${VERSION:-4.20}
+BUILD=${BUILD:-1}
 TAG=${TAG:-_SBo}
 PKGTYPE=${PKGTYPE:-tgz}
 
@@ -19,9 +28,6 @@ if [ -z "$ARCH" ]; then
   esac
 fi
 
-# If the variable PRINT_PACKAGE_NAME is set, then this script will report what
-# the name of the created package would be, and then exit. This information
-# could be useful to other scripts.
 if [ ! -z "${PRINT_PACKAGE_NAME}" ]; then
   echo "$PRGNAM-$VERSION-$ARCH-$BUILD$TAG.$PKGTYPE"
   exit 0
@@ -33,16 +39,12 @@ OUTPUT=${OUTPUT:-/tmp}
 
 if [ "$ARCH" = "i586" ]; then
   SLKCFLAGS="-O2 -march=i586 -mtune=i686"
-  LIBDIRSUFFIX=""
 elif [ "$ARCH" = "i686" ]; then
   SLKCFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -mtune=i686"
-  LIBDIRSUFFIX=""
 elif [ "$ARCH" = "x86_64" ]; then
   SLKCFLAGS="-O2 -fPIC"
-  LIBDIRSUFFIX="64"
 else
   SLKCFLAGS="-O2"
-  LIBDIRSUFFIX=""
 fi
 
 set -e
@@ -54,11 +56,8 @@ rm -rf $PRGNAM-$VERSION
 tar xvf $CWD/$PRGNAM-$VERSION.tar.bz2
 cd $PRGNAM-$VERSION
 chown -R root:root .
-find -L . \
- \( -perm 777 -o -perm 775 -o -perm 750 -o -perm 711 -o -perm 555 -o -perm 511 \) \
- -exec chmod 755 {} \; -o \
- \( -perm 666 -o -perm 664 -o -perm 600 -o -perm 444 -o -perm 440 -o -perm 400 \) \
- -exec chmod 644 {} \;
+find -L .  -perm /111 -a \! -perm 755 -a -exec chmod 755 {} + -o \
+        \! -perm /111 -a \! -perm 644 -a -exec chmod 644 {} +
 
 CFLAGS="$SLKCFLAGS" \
 CXXFLAGS="$SLKCFLAGS" \
@@ -68,20 +67,13 @@ CXXFLAGS="$SLKCFLAGS" \
   --build=$ARCH-slackware-linux
 
 make
-make install DESTDIR=$PKG
+make install-strip DESTDIR=$PKG
+gzip -9 $PKG/usr/man/man*/*
 
-find $PKG -print0 | xargs -0 file | grep -e "executable" -e "shared object" | grep ELF \
-  | cut -f 1 -d : | xargs strip --strip-unneeded 2> /dev/null || true
-
-find $PKG/usr/man -type f -exec gzip -9 {} \;
-for i in $( find $PKG/usr/man -type l ) ; do ln -s $( readlink $i ).gz $i.gz ; rm $i ; done
-
-mkdir -p $PKG/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION
-cp -a \
-  AUTHORS COPYING CREDITS ChangeLog INSTALL NEWS README TODO \
-  TestSuiteAscii2Uni \
-  $PKG/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION
-cat $CWD/$PRGNAM.SlackBuild > $PKG/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION/$PRGNAM.SlackBuild
+PKGDOC=$PKG/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION
+mkdir -p $PKGDOC
+cp -a AUTHORS COPYING CREDITS ChangeLog NEWS README TODO TestSuiteAscii2Uni $PKGDOC
+cat $CWD/$PRGNAM.SlackBuild > $PKGDOC/$PRGNAM.SlackBuild
 
 mkdir -p $PKG/install
 cat $CWD/slack-desc > $PKG/install/slack-desc
diff --git a/misc/uni2ascii/uni2ascii.info b/misc/uni2ascii/uni2ascii.info
index cc44e595e9..039f9eb8f6 100644
--- a/misc/uni2ascii/uni2ascii.info
+++ b/misc/uni2ascii/uni2ascii.info
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 PRGNAM="uni2ascii"
-VERSION="4.18"
+VERSION="4.20"
 HOMEPAGE="http://billposer.org/Software/uni2ascii.html"
-DOWNLOAD="http://billposer.org/Software/Downloads/uni2ascii-4.18.tar.bz2"
-MD5SUM="a1b1df74cccd1fa997bad79c8c4ced68"
+DOWNLOAD="http://billposer.org/Software/Downloads/uni2ascii-4.20.tar.bz2"
+MD5SUM="db8c907d6b2c1d71a465cfd4d0f7b4ab"
 DOWNLOAD_x86_64=""
 MD5SUM_x86_64=""
 REQUIRES=""
-MAINTAINER="Oleg O. Chukaev"
-EMAIL="oleg.chukaev@mail.ru"
+MAINTAINER="B. Watson"
+EMAIL="urchlay@slackware.uk"