diff --git a/srcpkgs/libe-book/patches/icu-68.patch b/srcpkgs/libe-book/patches/icu-68.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..1ed6b83b64a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/libe-book/patches/icu-68.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+Regressed by https://github.com/unicode-org/icu/commit/c3fe7e09d844
+
+EBOOKCharsetConverter.cpp:127:7: error: use of undeclared identifier 'TRUE'
+      TRUE, TRUE, &status)
+      ^
+EBOOKCharsetConverter.cpp:127:13: error: use of undeclared identifier 'TRUE'
+      TRUE, TRUE, &status)
+            ^
+
+--- a/src/lib/EBOOKCharsetConverter.cpp.orig	2018-01-01 11:16:28 UTC
++++ b/src/lib/EBOOKCharsetConverter.cpp
+@@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ bool EBOOKCharsetConverter::convertBytes(const char *c
+       m_converterToUTF8.get(), m_converterToUnicode.get(),
+       &outText, outText + out.size(), &inText, inText + length,
+       nullptr, nullptr, nullptr, nullptr,
+-      TRUE, TRUE, &status)
++      true, true, &status)
+     ;
+     if (status==U_BUFFER_OVERFLOW_ERROR)
+     {
diff --git a/srcpkgs/libe-book/template b/srcpkgs/libe-book/template
index 2c9fb778531..c45b15b98d5 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/libe-book/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/libe-book/template
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # Template file for 'libe-book'
 pkgname=libe-book
 version=0.1.3
-revision=8
+revision=9
 build_style=gnu-configure
 configure_args="--disable-werror"
 hostmakedepends="automake libtool gperf doxygen pkg-config"