diff --git a/textproc/Makefile b/textproc/Makefile
index 5bae425d5db1..e6bfdd969db3 100644
--- a/textproc/Makefile
+++ b/textproc/Makefile
@@ -1300,6 +1300,7 @@
     SUBDIR += py-zope.tal
     SUBDIR += py-zpt
     SUBDIR += py2html
+    SUBDIR += py3-chardet
     SUBDIR += py3-libxml2
     SUBDIR += py3-MarkupSafe
     SUBDIR += pychm
diff --git a/textproc/py3-chardet/Makefile b/textproc/py3-chardet/Makefile
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..e6d2962aa58e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/textproc/py3-chardet/Makefile
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+# Created by: Muhammad Moinur Rahman <bofh@FreeBSD.org>
+# $FreeBSD$
+
+PORTNAME=	chardet
+PORTVERSION=	2.3.0
+CATEGORIES=	textproc python
+MASTER_SITES=	CHEESESHOP
+PKGNAMEPREFIX=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}
+
+MAINTAINER=	bofh@FreeBSD.org
+COMMENT=	Universal encoding detector for Python 3
+
+LICENSE=	LGPL21
+LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/LICENSE
+
+USES=		python:3
+USE_PYTHON=	autoplist distutils
+NO_ARCH=	yes
+
+.include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/textproc/py3-chardet/distinfo b/textproc/py3-chardet/distinfo
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..d3c1414e6dea
--- /dev/null
+++ b/textproc/py3-chardet/distinfo
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+SHA256 (chardet-2.3.0.tar.gz) = e53e38b3a4afe6d1132de62b7400a4ac363452dc5dfcf8d88e8e0cce663c68aa
+SIZE (chardet-2.3.0.tar.gz) = 164346
diff --git a/textproc/py3-chardet/pkg-descr b/textproc/py3-chardet/pkg-descr
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..9a2771673397
--- /dev/null
+++ b/textproc/py3-chardet/pkg-descr
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+Character encoding auto-detection in Python.
+
+WWW: https://github.com/chardet/chardet/