diff --git a/recipes/wip/monitors/htop/recipe.toml b/recipes/wip/monitors/htop/recipe.toml
index f5f90ae2..d6a30af3 100644
--- a/recipes/wip/monitors/htop/recipe.toml
+++ b/recipes/wip/monitors/htop/recipe.toml
@@ -9,5 +9,8 @@ dependencies = [
 ]
 script = """
 export CPPFLAGS="-I${COOKBOOK_SYSROOT}/include/ncurses"
+COOKBOOK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS+=(
+    --disable-unicode
+)
 cookbook_configure
 """