diff --git a/dev-lua/dromozoa-utf8/Manifest b/dev-lua/dromozoa-utf8/Manifest
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+DIST dromozoa-utf8-1.19.tar.gz 2923059 BLAKE2B 1af9da9977bff5fb19f894ff9b01ae4845370cca1fd4e89e6a35a1d14e533ab5ff029a0fd95e911953dbdfd521264b23895702d561f41cd5faa93b641990532d SHA512 44ec32a7fe36f7895a29aeae96a229412c76fd451e5ea9294f27b20b636c80fa29569400eea94e31006f03662a05b7f387515b2e50e1d014d35dd0c066e2cfbb
diff --git a/dev-lua/dromozoa-utf8/dromozoa-utf8-1.19.ebuild b/dev-lua/dromozoa-utf8/dromozoa-utf8-1.19.ebuild
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+# Copyright 1999-2025 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+# Currently, lax optional argument introduced in Lua 5.4 is not supported,
+# so it is not compatible with Lua 5.4 or later
+LUA_COMPAT=( lua5-3 )
+
+inherit lua
+
+DESCRIPTION="Lua 5.3 compatible pure-Lua UTF-8 implementation"
+HOMEPAGE="https://dromozoa.github.io/dromozoa-utf8/"
+HOMEPAGE+=" https://github.com/dromozoa/dromozoa-utf8"
+SRC_URI="https://github.com/dromozoa/dromozoa-utf8/archive/refs/tags/v${PV}.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz"
+
+LICENSE="GPL-3"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64"
+
+RDEPEND="${LUA_DEPS}"
+DEPEND="${RDEPEND}"
+
+lua_src_test() {
+	# inside test.sh lua command is called,
+	# so each implementation should be tested separately
+	./test.sh || die "Tests failed for ${LUA}"
+}
+
+src_test() {
+	lua_foreach_impl lua_src_test
+}
+
+lua_src_install() {
+	insinto "$(lua_get_lmod_dir)"
+	doins -r dromozoa/
+}
+
+src_install() {
+	lua_foreach_impl lua_src_install
+	dobin dromozoa-markdown-table
+	HTML_DOCS=( docs/index.html )
+	# Install only the latest documentation
+	DOCS+=( docs/16.0.0/ )
+	einstalldocs
+}
diff --git a/dev-lua/dromozoa-utf8/metadata.xml b/dev-lua/dromozoa-utf8/metadata.xml
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "https://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
+<pkgmetadata>
+	<maintainer type="person">
+		<email>suleyman@farajli.net</email>
+		<name>Suleyman Farajli</name>
+	</maintainer>
+	<upstream>
+		<remote-id type="github">dromozoa/dromozoa-utf8</remote-id>
+	</upstream>
+</pkgmetadata>