diff --git a/dev-python/cchardet/Manifest b/dev-python/cchardet/Manifest
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+DIST cchardet-2.1.6.tar.gz 653913 BLAKE2B 42dc65af2c25fef8447f0fbdb1f2fd35f0a4e2fe4aec2b65b18039143ce941ec958b52a1891c0b35eeb020151188336c96feebe3fc5ac6004538ca3844e1f060 SHA512 202c9460ddb4e8ae9435308d17e4066fa9ff389bfdce49fe86e01257bd1d9904e57cfb060e262947b339a8ab09cc4758e2a193a7082da2662645d4f4267ba02c
diff --git a/dev-python/cchardet/cchardet-2.1.6.ebuild b/dev-python/cchardet/cchardet-2.1.6.ebuild
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+# Copyright 1999-2020 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI="7"
+
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{6,7} )
+
+inherit distutils-r1
+
+DESCRIPTION="cChardet is high speed universal character encoding detector"
+HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/PyYoshi/cChardet"
+SRC_URI="mirror://pypi/${P:0:1}/${PN}/${P}.tar.gz"
+
+LICENSE="MPL-1.1"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64"
+
+#tests fail with an import failure
+#    from cchardet import _cchardet
+#ImportError: cannot import name '_cchardet'
+#I tried to manually import _cchardet in ipython3 and it works ...
+RESTRICT="test"
+
+RDEPEND="
+	dev-python/chardet[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+"
+#bundled ...
+#	app-i18n/uchardet
+DEPEND="
+	${RDEPEND}
+	dev-python/cython[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+"
+
+distutils_enable_tests nose
+
+#src_prepare() {
+#	append-cppflags "-I/usr/include/uchardet"
+	#bundled uchardet
+#	rm -rf src/ext/uchardet || die
+#	default
+#}
+
+#python_test() {
+#	distutils_install_for_testing
+#	"${EPYTHON}" setup.py nosetest || die
+#}
diff --git a/dev-python/cchardet/metadata.xml b/dev-python/cchardet/metadata.xml
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+<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
+<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
+<pkgmetadata>
+  <maintainer type="person">
+    <email>lssndrbarbieri@gmail.com</email>
+    <name>Alessandro Barbieri</name>
+  </maintainer>
+  <longdescription lang="en">
+Supported Languages/Encodings
+
+    International (Unicode)
+        UTF-8
+        UTF-16BE / UTF-16LE
+        UTF-32BE / UTF-32LE / X-ISO-10646-UCS-4-34121 / X-ISO-10646-UCS-4-21431
+    Arabic
+        ISO-8859-6
+        WINDOWS-1256
+    Bulgarian
+        ISO-8859-5
+        WINDOWS-1251
+    Chinese
+        ISO-2022-CN
+        BIG5
+        EUC-TW
+        GB18030
+        HZ-GB-2312
+    Croatian:
+        ISO-8859-2
+        ISO-8859-13
+        ISO-8859-16
+        Windows-1250
+        IBM852
+        MAC-CENTRALEUROPE
+    Czech
+        Windows-1250
+        ISO-8859-2
+        IBM852
+        MAC-CENTRALEUROPE
+    Danish
+        ISO-8859-1
+        ISO-8859-15
+        WINDOWS-1252
+    English
+        ASCII
+    Esperanto
+        ISO-8859-3
+    Estonian
+        ISO-8859-4
+        ISO-8859-13
+        ISO-8859-13
+        Windows-1252
+        Windows-1257
+    Finnish
+        ISO-8859-1
+        ISO-8859-4
+        ISO-8859-9
+        ISO-8859-13
+        ISO-8859-15
+        WINDOWS-1252
+    French
+        ISO-8859-1
+        ISO-8859-15
+        WINDOWS-1252
+    German
+        ISO-8859-1
+        WINDOWS-1252
+    Greek
+        ISO-8859-7
+        WINDOWS-1253
+    Hebrew
+        ISO-8859-8
+        WINDOWS-1255
+    Hungarian:
+        ISO-8859-2
+        WINDOWS-1250
+    Irish Gaelic
+        ISO-8859-1
+        ISO-8859-9
+        ISO-8859-15
+        WINDOWS-1252
+    Italian
+        ISO-8859-1
+        ISO-8859-3
+        ISO-8859-9
+        ISO-8859-15
+        WINDOWS-1252
+    Japanese
+        ISO-2022-JP
+        SHIFT_JIS
+        EUC-JP
+    Korean
+        ISO-2022-KR
+        EUC-KR / UHC
+    Lithuanian
+        ISO-8859-4
+        ISO-8859-10
+        ISO-8859-13
+    Latvian
+        ISO-8859-4
+        ISO-8859-10
+        ISO-8859-13
+    Maltese
+        ISO-8859-3
+    Polish:
+        ISO-8859-2
+        ISO-8859-13
+        ISO-8859-16
+        Windows-1250
+        IBM852
+        MAC-CENTRALEUROPE
+    Portuguese
+        ISO-8859-1
+        ISO-8859-9
+        ISO-8859-15
+        WINDOWS-1252
+    Romanian:
+        ISO-8859-2
+        ISO-8859-16
+        Windows-1250
+        IBM852
+    Russian
+        ISO-8859-5
+        KOI8-R
+        WINDOWS-1251
+        MAC-CYRILLIC
+        IBM866
+        IBM855
+    Slovak
+        Windows-1250
+        ISO-8859-2
+        IBM852
+        MAC-CENTRALEUROPE
+    Slovene
+        ISO-8859-2
+        ISO-8859-16
+        Windows-1250
+        IBM852
+        M
+  </longdescription>
+  <upstream>
+    <remote-id type="pypi">googletransx</remote-id>
+  </upstream>
+</pkgmetadata>