diff --git a/dev-haskell/wcwidth/Manifest b/dev-haskell/wcwidth/Manifest
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..dd3dcc4dbd78d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-haskell/wcwidth/Manifest
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+DIST wcwidth-0.0.2.tar.gz 4168 BLAKE2B 4c6f3b490934aacef35b4fcbf8d9cc8f2c93b2d34a705e78dae4750f2adaf37d4d16d89e6595a50bf545d7a7dd486f589b1000f7d2f5b2893b45680ed31f1c4d SHA512 555c38183c7c402a66c151e52bbac9e6c501528cd661ad1708576444b6dc4daa19e0d75c9b79f8590843e0e40b3758d9bea08e426e754688cd32070dfce5a649
diff --git a/dev-haskell/wcwidth/files/wcwidth-0.0.2-fix-build-failure.patch b/dev-haskell/wcwidth/files/wcwidth-0.0.2-fix-build-failure.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..7332f9edf0e3e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-haskell/wcwidth/files/wcwidth-0.0.2-fix-build-failure.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+From 4fc1333ecfa19129debbac1dcdc1f444d69cbcd4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Jack Todaro <jackmtodaro@gmail.com>
+Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2018 15:49:21 +1000
+Subject: [PATCH] Fix build for newer versions of base
+
+---
+ WCWidthTableaux.hs | 4 ++--
+ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/WCWidthTableaux.hs b/WCWidthTableaux.hs
+index 576fbb6..4a4d8f4 100755
+--- a/WCWidthTableaux.hs
++++ b/WCWidthTableaux.hs
+@@ -5,13 +5,13 @@
+ 
+ import Data.Char
+ import Data.List
+-import System.Environment.UTF8
++import System.Environment
+ import System.IO
+ import System.Exit
+ import Text.Printf
+ 
+ import System.Locale.SetLocale
+-import qualified System.IO.UTF8 as UTF8
++-- import qualified System.IO.UTF8 as UTF8
+ 
+ import Data.Char.WCWidth
+ 
+-- 
+2.19.0
+
diff --git a/dev-haskell/wcwidth/metadata.xml b/dev-haskell/wcwidth/metadata.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..9e3d25033a248
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-haskell/wcwidth/metadata.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
+<pkgmetadata>
+	<maintainer type="project">
+		<email>haskell@gentoo.org</email>
+		<name>Gentoo Haskell</name>
+	</maintainer>
+	<use>
+		<flag name="cli">
+			Enable command line tool
+		</flag>
+	</use>
+	<longdescription>
+		Bindings for your system's native wcwidth and a command line tool to examine
+		the widths assigned by it. The command line tool can compile a width table
+		to Haskell code that assigns widths to the Char type.
+	</longdescription>
+</pkgmetadata>
diff --git a/dev-haskell/wcwidth/wcwidth-0.0.2.ebuild b/dev-haskell/wcwidth/wcwidth-0.0.2.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..32bc1fc8e9e22
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-haskell/wcwidth/wcwidth-0.0.2.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2020 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=6
+
+# ebuild generated by hackport 0.5.5
+# hackport: flags: +split-base
+CABAL_FEATURES="lib profile haddock hoogle hscolour"
+inherit haskell-cabal
+
+DESCRIPTION="Native wcwidth"
+HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/solidsnack/wcwidth/"
+SRC_URI="https://hackage.haskell.org/package/${P}/${P}.tar.gz"
+
+LICENSE="BSD"
+SLOT="0/${PV}"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86"
+IUSE="cli"
+
+RDEPEND=">=dev-lang/ghc-7.4.1:=
+	cli? ( >=dev-haskell/attoparsec-0.8.5:=[profile?]
+		>=dev-haskell/setlocale-0.0.3:=[profile?]
+		>=dev-haskell/utf8-string-0.3:=[profile?] )
+"
+DEPEND="${RDEPEND}
+	>=dev-haskell/cabal-1.6.0
+"
+
+PATCHES=( ${FILESDIR}/${P}-fix-build-failure.patch )
+
+src_configure() {
+	haskell-cabal_src_configure \
+		$(cabal_flag cli cli) \
+		--flag=split-base
+}