diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/libchardet/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/libchardet/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..f7834c56b63a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/libchardet/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+{ stdenv, fetchurl, perl }:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  name = "libchardet-1.0.4";
+  
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "ftp://ftp.oops.org/pub/oops/libchardet/${name}.tar.bz2";
+    sha256 = "0cvwba4la25qw70ap8jd5r743a9jshqd26nnbh5ph68zj1imlgzl";
+  };
+
+  nativeBuildInputs = [ perl ];
+
+  enableParallelBuilding = true;
+
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    description = "Mozilla's Universal Charset Detector C/C++ API";
+    homepage = ftp://ftp.oops.org/pub/oops/libchardet/index.html;
+    license = licenses.mpl11;
+    maintainers = [ maintainers.abbradar ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 19ce6712f3ce..c12dff9825ea 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -5251,6 +5251,8 @@ let
 
   libchamplain_0_6 = callPackage ../development/libraries/libchamplain/0.6.nix {};
 
+  libchardet = callPackage ../development/libraries/libchardet { };
+
   libchop = callPackage ../development/libraries/libchop { };
 
   libcm = callPackage ../development/libraries/libcm { };