diff --git a/dev-libs/libchardet/Manifest b/dev-libs/libchardet/Manifest
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..6b3dd7b46e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-libs/libchardet/Manifest
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+DIST libchardet-1.0.6.tar.bz2 435028 BLAKE2B 2a84aac34c15f62574ebc763f77faf97c6f5c3f99c5ec95797c45c0fc8abdf9491cb6f6153c74282843e0cd4c0ef8dcbccae7538006020c11425b9372534dbdf SHA512 f46b603d258883afd2f1e7758d48887bc507cb5040f7e9f21b43fbcc11e4ad2393b66ade7e003ac58bae0215ac5e888e0e4c04d6da695b1ef9f113551a2ea597
diff --git a/dev-libs/libchardet/files/libchardet-1.0.6-pkgconfig.patch b/dev-libs/libchardet/files/libchardet-1.0.6-pkgconfig.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..33098f1e39
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-libs/libchardet/files/libchardet-1.0.6-pkgconfig.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+Don't copy CFLAGS from portage's make.conf to .pc
+
+--- a/chardet.pc.in
++++ b/chardet.pc.in
+@@ -9,4 +9,4 @@ Name: @PACKAGE_NAME@
+ Description: Mozilla's Universal Charset Detector C/C++ API
+ Version: @PACKAGE_VERSION@
+ Libs: -L${libdir} -lchardet
+-Cflags: -I${includedir}/chardet @CFLAGS@
++Cflags: -I${includedir}/chardet
diff --git a/dev-libs/libchardet/libchardet-1.0.6.ebuild b/dev-libs/libchardet/libchardet-1.0.6.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..daeac81135
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-libs/libchardet/libchardet-1.0.6.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2024 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+DESCRIPTION="Mozilla's Universal Charset Detector C/C++ API"
+HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/Joungkyun/libchardet"
+SRC_URI="https://github.com/Joungkyun/libchardet/releases/download/${PV}/${P}.tar.bz2"
+
+LICENSE="LGPL-2.1 MPL-1.1"
+SLOT="0/0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64"
+
+PATCHES=(
+	"${FILESDIR}/libchardet-1.0.6-pkgconfig.patch"
+)
+
+src_install() {
+	default
+	find "${ED}" -name "*.la" -delete || die
+}
diff --git a/dev-libs/libchardet/metadata.xml b/dev-libs/libchardet/metadata.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..6cfbc4f4b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-libs/libchardet/metadata.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "https://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
+<pkgmetadata>
+	<maintainer type="person">
+		<email>alexey+gentoo@asokolov.org</email>
+		<name>Alexey Sokolov</name>
+	</maintainer>
+	<longdescription lang="en">
+		libchardet is based on Mozilla Universal Charset Detector library and, detects the character set used to encode data.
+	</longdescription>
+	<upstream>
+		<bugs-to>https://github.com/Joungkyun/libchardet/issues</bugs-to>
+		<remote-id type="github">Joungkyun/libchardet</remote-id>
+	</upstream>
+</pkgmetadata>