diff --git a/textproc/chardet/Makefile b/textproc/chardet/Makefile
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..c15098909cf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/textproc/chardet/Makefile
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+COMMENT=		Mozilla's universal character set detector C/C++ API
+
+V=			1.0.6
+DISTNAME=		libchardet-${V}
+EXTRACT_SUFX=		.tar.bz2
+
+SHARED_LIBS +=  chardet              0.0      # 1.0
+
+CATEGORIES=		textproc
+
+# https preferred for HOMEPAGE
+#HOMEPAGE =	???	URL
+
+# MPL-1.1
+PERMIT_PACKAGE=		Yes
+
+SITES=			https://github.com/Joungkyun/libchardet/releases/download/${V}/
+
+WANTLIB += ${COMPILER_LIBCXX} m
+
+CONFIGURE_STYLE=	gnu
+
+.include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/textproc/chardet/distinfo b/textproc/chardet/distinfo
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..b8dcc53f448
--- /dev/null
+++ b/textproc/chardet/distinfo
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+SHA256 (libchardet-1.0.6.tar.bz2) = iVjVc4yPevNRzI9xjpIseWH9Lwlfxmi/9ZripTEjFZI=
+SIZE (libchardet-1.0.6.tar.bz2) = 435028
diff --git a/textproc/chardet/patches/patch-chardet_pc_in b/textproc/chardet/patches/patch-chardet_pc_in
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..f3ecb8da05a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/textproc/chardet/patches/patch-chardet_pc_in
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+From d919d9906aaa4fb66d14ddfd5a7af0fac1468772 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Jakob Gahde <j5lx@fmail.co.uk>
+Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2026 02:18:20 +0100
+Subject: [PATCH] Fix pkg-config Cflags
+
+Index: chardet.pc.in
+--- chardet.pc.in.orig
++++ chardet.pc.in
+@@ -9,4 +9,4 @@ Name: @PACKAGE_NAME@
+ Description: Mozilla's Universal Charset Detector C/C++ API
+ Version: @PACKAGE_VERSION@
+ Libs: -L${libdir} -lchardet
+-Cflags: -I${includedir}/chardet @CFLAGS@
++Cflags: -I${includedir}/chardet
diff --git a/textproc/chardet/pkg/DESCR b/textproc/chardet/pkg/DESCR
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..7307b5ac548
--- /dev/null
+++ b/textproc/chardet/pkg/DESCR
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+libchardet is based on Mozilla Universal Charset Detector library and, detects
+the character set used to encode data.
diff --git a/textproc/chardet/pkg/PLIST b/textproc/chardet/pkg/PLIST
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..8c61def49bf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/textproc/chardet/pkg/PLIST
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+bin/chardet-config
+include/chardet/
+include/chardet/chardet-config.h
+include/chardet/chardet.h
+include/chardet/nsUniversalDetector.h
+include/chardet/nscore.h
+include/chardet/version.h
+@static-lib lib/libchardet.a
+lib/libchardet.la
+@lib lib/libchardet.so.${LIBchardet_VERSION}
+lib/pkgconfig/chardet.pc
+man/ko/
+man/ko/man3/
+@man man/ko/man3/detect.3
+@man man/ko/man3/detect_destroy.3
+@man man/ko/man3/detect_handledata.3
+@man man/ko/man3/detect_init.3
+@man man/ko/man3/detect_obj_free.3
+@man man/ko/man3/detect_obj_init.3
+@man man/ko/man3/detect_reset.3
+@man man/man3/detect.3
+@man man/man3/detect_destroy.3
+@man man/man3/detect_handledata.3
+@man man/man3/detect_init.3
+@man man/man3/detect_obj_free.3
+@man man/man3/detect_obj_init.3
+@man man/man3/detect_reset.3
+share/doc/libchardet/
+share/doc/libchardet/Changelog
+share/doc/libchardet/LICENSE