diff --git a/dev-libs/libintl/Manifest b/dev-libs/libintl/Manifest
index 7e5bafb16826d..d2a94fb89af48 100644
--- a/dev-libs/libintl/Manifest
+++ b/dev-libs/libintl/Manifest
@@ -8,3 +8,5 @@ DIST gettext-0.23.2.tar.xz 11050476 BLAKE2B a59345e2164ef67bab6cb87593a51c6cdba7
 DIST gettext-0.23.2.tar.xz.sig 228 BLAKE2B a407f7fb586e300b6ba4032f9e5920864e1f3ba7dfc37fa3d6a48aa4e6e1eaa8238fc8f02ba6ee8e5e4eed9a0206eb61c52cc0f4121bc23d59fc00b3238accd7 SHA512 172f3fb3a7645a2259912d002e7700fa411a9be33b76d2eaacdafe1352cd8dcca23b335d6fbe8b31cbae18f1036be50e27ee7fd9bb2048a991238f99791f54a4
 DIST gettext-0.25.1.tar.xz 9930836 BLAKE2B 8a1e512b9bcfa196dcf138e80844766fe35d6c08240e862ac9a728aee378c711e88f7145f9142e7178fa25b6556f1daa6d2de066714cbe26db64dd24fb3516ae SHA512 321c890c2fa535a7ad7a0d4a9fdf08ecd679cfc91bae1a84d54454bcfa5cfc46240be03444c55c0ab9d5b5e1b7d3db2d22ff81d94f595d8c793e370caf4b5c94
 DIST gettext-0.25.1.tar.xz.sig 228 BLAKE2B 613be788a4b7ebf1318103b1c2dd0bad0397e4f453de8cfc924915008e43c7c224a435710a3dc19f42ed6f42ff14d124ca04482d1a2ed6bc12dd39b950526685 SHA512 36efdfce828171f062b899a6655939a923294bef0fa664e1c39a519241cecfc09bcbd9471bcc9150e96446e83042cd5a4cc034f8f1f39d02c59bde3cede4417a
+DIST gettext-0.26.tar.xz 10061740 BLAKE2B b182e5fdb9fc46868dc39b512ef300c54c8e77a766f2d2de69289f84966d4205f494b3ecedfb30c6df581947172411ae7eb4ccc0bb1f180b67dd8a83803832a8 SHA512 544e41c9390695df1c21542842e9ca027a03cb7d4045d8cd759dec1a3dfb624aae900751b458bdb31d6454b37c40c474a952059b884555a03c7c95d6d0e687b1
+DIST gettext-0.26.tar.xz.sig 228 BLAKE2B 80a960f92ccc7bdc20362fcf01f81aeacdca5d3fa22a02b560d20c097ae146f0f5b83db1b7bb40e34bf5c9ea582ed858183143f1a0de087e681ee32e09c55bc2 SHA512 509949861f0e2f9ff8d99f03d0effe8d5dfc60fd3fa50e24601554b6ca985f0e11c05cf6c61188aceb20cc27e7199f3e4424235d1a0fdcc2d7a0f89a796a06ee
diff --git a/dev-libs/libintl/libintl-0.26.ebuild b/dev-libs/libintl/libintl-0.26.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..84fbf99bf0fc8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-libs/libintl/libintl-0.26.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
+}