diff --git a/dev-R/utf8/Manifest b/dev-R/utf8/Manifest
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+DIST utf8_1.1.4.tar.gz 218882 BLAKE2B 360e5010be9b4df755cf10b165e4de613aaa6e2420d28974522aafc7d99464cbf2c025b2a93a3319e3d4bb6dd85f998563ffa1780eacc1281aec9da49adc0fa5 SHA512 c45308500417e820285edaba54d5e6f3f2ab599dc388457a85cff0112b454ff09a9e18710762a93fc21239d84440ab844a1a7b134af6111a3cf0e3fa25ed95eb
diff --git a/dev-R/utf8/metadata.xml b/dev-R/utf8/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">
+		Process and print 'UTF-8' encoded international text (Unicode). Input, validate, normalize, encode, format, and display.
+	</longdescription>
+	<upstream>
+		<bugs-to>
+			https://github.com/patperry/r-utf8/issues
+		</bugs-to>
+		<doc lang="en">
+			https://cran.r-project.org/web//packages/utf8/utf8.pdf
+		</doc>
+		<changelog>
+			https://cran.r-project.org/web//packages/utf8/NEWS
+		</changelog>
+		<maintainer>
+			<name>
+				Patrick O. Perry
+			</name>
+			<email>
+				patperry@gmail.com
+			</email>
+		</maintainer>
+		<remote-id type="github">
+			patperry/r-utf8
+		</remote-id>
+	</upstream>
+</pkgmetadata>
diff --git a/dev-R/utf8/utf8-1.1.4.ebuild b/dev-R/utf8/utf8-1.1.4.ebuild
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+# Copyright 1999-2020 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/utf8_1.1.4.tar.gz"
+LICENSE='Apache-2.0'
+
+IUSE="${IUSE-}"