diff --git a/dev-libs/libintl/Manifest b/dev-libs/libintl/Manifest
index 0104221a7a87f..d0b6fc2b03549 100644
--- a/dev-libs/libintl/Manifest
+++ b/dev-libs/libintl/Manifest
@@ -4,5 +4,7 @@ DIST gettext-0.22.4.tar.xz 10255384 BLAKE2B 3f93aa5aef8e40d2e01acaa5aeed11efefd0
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+DIST gettext-0.23.1.tar.xz 11038556 BLAKE2B 08d10340f3d855a87a96594c6f2dcf72925394f02e86235090f8d272e0a27ce32e57a0fbaed61aaf61d7328ff30be076dccaecaa13832d8db3ec0a51786780b9 SHA512 d75908f73eabe36c01d72d342ca694dbefad5f43da54f0ccb43bfd0518baff5becc8f50e787f21fadb7c29b3123638e4559334ea4f8e48a97107e8c5e22453b6
+DIST gettext-0.23.1.tar.xz.sig 833 BLAKE2B 7ab3c5b76825fcd71371f25f0cc3d79704c5ae405f153917901f583f5780f3707f622522b2bac89dbf32a7bf281216ad7469608af490ad6072f12c81e472200a SHA512 8aa2ba38d863d15a91b526b8b22d5aa54e07bc9cf716a551338d4f7f4230288bfa1234d4628e28fcdb4dc4050786a233a194197ca247d98c939e4d06bca4c230
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diff --git a/dev-libs/libintl/libintl-0.23.1.ebuild b/dev-libs/libintl/libintl-0.23.1.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..84fbf99bf0fc8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-libs/libintl/libintl-0.23.1.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,105 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2025 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+# Note: Keep version bumps in sync with sys-devel/gettext.
+
+EAPI=8
+
+MY_P="gettext-${PV}"
+VERIFY_SIG_OPENPGP_KEY_PATH=/usr/share/openpgp-keys/gettext.asc
+inherit multilib-minimal libtool usr-ldscript verify-sig
+
+DESCRIPTION="the GNU international library (split out of gettext)"
+HOMEPAGE="https://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/"
+SRC_URI="
+	mirror://gnu/gettext/${MY_P}.tar.xz
+	verify-sig? ( mirror://gnu/gettext/${MY_P}.tar.xz.sig )
+"
+S="${WORKDIR}/${MY_P}/gettext-runtime"
+
+LICENSE="LGPL-2.1+"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~alpha ~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~hppa ~m68k ~mips ~ppc ~ppc64 ~s390 ~sparc ~x86 ~amd64-linux ~x86-linux ~arm64-macos ~ppc-macos ~x64-macos ~x64-solaris"
+IUSE="static-libs +threads"
+
+DEPEND=">=virtual/libiconv-0-r1[${MULTILIB_USEDEP}]"
+# Block C libraries known to provide libintl.
+RDEPEND="
+	${DEPEND}
+	!sys-libs/glibc
+	!sys-libs/musl
+	!<sys-devel/gettext-0.19.6-r1
+"
+BDEPEND="verify-sig? ( sec-keys/openpgp-keys-gettext )"
+
+QA_CONFIG_IMPL_DECL_SKIP=(
+	# bug #898570
+	unreachable
+	MIN
+	alignof
+	static_assert
+)
+
+src_prepare() {
+	default
+
+	cd "${WORKDIR}/${MY_P}" || die
+
+	# gettext-0.21.1-java-autoconf.patch changes
+	# gettext-{runtime,tools}/configure.ac and the corresponding
+	# configure scripts. Avoid regenerating other autotools output.
+	#touch -c gettext-{runtime,tools}/{aclocal.m4,Makefile.in,config.h.in,configure} || die
+	# Makefile.am adds a dependency on gettext-{runtime,tools}/configure.ac
+	#touch -c configure || die
+
+	cd "${S}" || die
+
+	# The libtool files are stored higher up, so make sure we run in the
+	# whole tree and not just the subdir we build.
+	elibtoolize "${WORKDIR}"
+}
+
+multilib_src_configure() {
+	local myconf=(
+		--cache-file="${BUILD_DIR}"/config.cache
+
+		# Emacs support is now in a separate package.
+		--without-emacs
+		--without-lispdir
+		# Normally this controls nls behavior in general, but the libintl
+		# subdir is skipped unless this is explicitly set.  ugh.
+		--enable-nls
+		# This magic flag enables libintl.
+		--with-included-gettext
+		# The gettext package provides this library.
+		--disable-c++
+		--disable-libasprintf
+		# No Java until someone cares.
+		--disable-java
+
+		$(use_enable static-libs static)
+		$(use_enable threads)
+	)
+
+	ECONF_SOURCE="${S}" econf "${myconf[@]}"
+}
+
+multilib_src_compile() {
+	# We only need things in the intl/ subdir.
+	emake -C intl
+}
+
+multilib_src_install() {
+	# We only need things in the intl/ subdir.
+	emake DESTDIR="${D}" install -C intl
+
+	gen_usr_ldscript -a intl
+}
+
+multilib_src_install_all() {
+	if ! use static-libs ; then
+		find "${ED}" -type f -name "*.la" -delete || die
+	fi
+
+	dodoc AUTHORS ChangeLog NEWS README
+}