diff --git a/app-i18n/uchardet/Manifest b/app-i18n/uchardet/Manifest
index 654f54d145d69..887207bd30560 100644
--- a/app-i18n/uchardet/Manifest
+++ b/app-i18n/uchardet/Manifest
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 DIST uchardet-0.0.8.tar.xz 222648 BLAKE2B 8da78cba3c73afab0e94cac53b2b5c7832d11d58641ff221174d051a1610f8368c8bb536f2b0729c30ed0d13d7e2319d524597d1ca49fd1c6cefb3176aa76b9a SHA512 4a5dcc9ff021352f3b252e103ff1475cec62c974294b264ee9243f024633c3ae44be8c7733608624066113e635f8b156ecb08c8ff87c736d04b07641eb166382
+DIST uchardet-06029ec3340cdf6bf9a6a537dafb3f39eda0560e.tar.bz2 389417 BLAKE2B 41c72f8febbfe8cbd6d9f246b3e6bd51a912910f5d48be8b51580f4ce9b7a37793d685c803da41b451105955bc5038004f5d3604a36465105da3a307e438233f SHA512 f07ca9fd833bc079b4ad4e439e7bb53a0054f12e9f1ad2616c4380b9ddb0f4f8ca66e6e95f58d4c0596cf68f40e5c9f84a7e056a5feffd9cae2010629b912a57
diff --git a/app-i18n/uchardet/uchardet-0.0.8_p20250825.ebuild b/app-i18n/uchardet/uchardet-0.0.8_p20250825.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..2626bd4fc919b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app-i18n/uchardet/uchardet-0.0.8_p20250825.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2026 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+inherit cmake
+
+HASH_UCHARDET=06029ec3340cdf6bf9a6a537dafb3f39eda0560e #979611
+
+DESCRIPTION="Encoding detector library"
+HOMEPAGE="https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/uchardet/"
+SRC_URI="
+	https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/uchardet/uchardet/-/archive/${HASH_UCHARDET}/${PN}-${HASH_UCHARDET}.tar.bz2
+"
+S=${WORKDIR}/${PN}-${HASH_UCHARDET}
+
+LICENSE="|| ( MPL-1.1 GPL-2+ LGPL-2.1+ )"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~alpha ~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~hppa ~loong ~m68k ~mips ~ppc ~ppc64 ~riscv ~s390 ~sparc ~x86 ~x64-macos ~x64-solaris"
+IUSE="cpu_flags_x86_sse2"
+
+CMAKE_SKIP_TESTS=(
+	# https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/uchardet/uchardet/-/work_items/39
+	# https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/uchardet/uchardet/-/merge_requests/15
+	zh:gb18030
+)
+
+src_configure() {
+	local mycmakeargs=(
+		-DBUILD_STATIC=no
+		-DCHECK_SSE2=$(usex cpu_flags_x86_sse2)
+		-DTARGET_ARCHITECTURE="${ARCH}"
+	)
+
+	cmake_src_configure
+}