diff --git a/dev-R/utf8/Manifest b/dev-R/utf8/Manifest
index 15857ee319..9eccf09682 100644
--- a/dev-R/utf8/Manifest
+++ b/dev-R/utf8/Manifest
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 DIST utf8_1.1.4.tar.gz 218882 BLAKE2B 360e5010be9b4df755cf10b165e4de613aaa6e2420d28974522aafc7d99464cbf2c025b2a93a3319e3d4bb6dd85f998563ffa1780eacc1281aec9da49adc0fa5 SHA512 c45308500417e820285edaba54d5e6f3f2ab599dc388457a85cff0112b454ff09a9e18710762a93fc21239d84440ab844a1a7b134af6111a3cf0e3fa25ed95eb
+DIST utf8_1.2.1.tar.gz 239463 BLAKE2B 81f12769f360731a58c1d132e0edb0d33378b400e644514e49807c20584c16e177babed3d46552f833d2650a35064f7240777749a6059dc671b29afb906625d6 SHA512 c91b1000366c44cea0956100cb0c5681466b9f4fd4511c8b4ebf6fb5d14bd71a49b1e4cb082a776af49de05e51c3deb0ba688a9bd740e5e722d41dd9b1eab282
diff --git a/dev-R/utf8/utf8-1.2.1.ebuild b/dev-R/utf8/utf8-1.2.1.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..a405bc86a5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-R/utf8/utf8-1.2.1.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2021 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI="7"
+
+inherit R-packages-guru
+
+HOMEPAGE="
+	https://github.com/patperry/r-utf8
+	https://cran.r-project.org/package=utf8
+"
+DESCRIPTION='Unicode Text Processing'
+SRC_URI="http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/${PN}_${PV}.tar.gz"
+LICENSE='Apache-2.0'
+KEYWORDS="~amd64"
+IUSE="${IUSE-}"
+DEPEND=">=dev-lang/R-2.1.0"
+RDEPEND="${DEPEND}"