diff --git a/textproc/chardet/Makefile b/textproc/chardet/Makefile
deleted file mode 100644
index c15098909cf..00000000000
--- a/textproc/chardet/Makefile
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,23 +0,0 @@
-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 += ${COMPILER_LIBCXX} m
-
-CONFIGURE_STYLE=	gnu
-
-.include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/textproc/chardet/distinfo b/textproc/chardet/distinfo
deleted file mode 100644
index b8dcc53f448..00000000000
--- a/textproc/chardet/distinfo
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-SHA256 (libchardet-1.0.6.tar.bz2) = iVjVc4yPevNRzI9xjpIseWH9Lwlfxmi/9ZripTEjFZI=
-SIZE (libchardet-1.0.6.tar.bz2) = 435028
diff --git a/textproc/chardet/patches/patch-chardet_pc_in b/textproc/chardet/patches/patch-chardet_pc_in
deleted file mode 100644
index f3ecb8da05a..00000000000
--- a/textproc/chardet/patches/patch-chardet_pc_in
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
-From d919d9906aaa4fb66d14ddfd5a7af0fac1468772 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: Jakob Gahde <j5lx@fmail.co.uk>
-Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2026 02:18:20 +0100
-Subject: [PATCH] Fix pkg-config Cflags
-
-Index: chardet.pc.in
---- chardet.pc.in.orig
-+++ chardet.pc.in
-@@ -9,4 +9,4 @@ Name: @PACKAGE_NAME@
- Description: Mozilla's Universal Charset Detector C/C++ API
- Version: @PACKAGE_VERSION@
- Libs: -L${libdir} -lchardet
--Cflags: -I${includedir}/chardet @CFLAGS@
-+Cflags: -I${includedir}/chardet
diff --git a/textproc/chardet/pkg/DESCR b/textproc/chardet/pkg/DESCR
deleted file mode 100644
index 7307b5ac548..00000000000
--- a/textproc/chardet/pkg/DESCR
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-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
deleted file mode 100644
index 8c61def49bf..00000000000
--- a/textproc/chardet/pkg/PLIST
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,30 +0,0 @@
-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