source "package/python-certifi/Config.in"
        source "package/python-cffi/Config.in"
        source "package/python-characteristic/Config.in"
+       source "package/python-chardet/Config.in"
        source "package/python-cheetah/Config.in"
        source "package/python-cherrypy/Config.in"
        source "package/python-click/Config.in"
 
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+config BR2_PACKAGE_PYTHON_CHARDET
+       bool "python-chardet"
+       help
+         Universal encoding detector for Python 2 and 3.
+
+         https://github.com/chardet/chardet
 
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+# md5 from https://pypi.python.org/pypi/chardet/json, sha256 locally computed
+md5    25274d664ccb5130adae08047416e1a8  chardet-2.3.0.tar.gz
+sha256 e53e38b3a4afe6d1132de62b7400a4ac363452dc5dfcf8d88e8e0cce663c68aa  chardet-2.3.0.tar.gz
 
--- /dev/null
+################################################################################
+#
+# python-chardet
+#
+################################################################################
+
+PYTHON_CHARDET_VERSION = 2.3.0
+PYTHON_CHARDET_SOURCE = chardet-$(PYTHON_CHARDET_VERSION).tar.gz
+PYTHON_CHARDET_SITE = https://pypi.python.org/packages/7d/87/4e3a3f38b2f5c578ce44f8dc2aa053217de9f0b6d737739b0ddac38ed237
+PYTHON_CHARDET_SETUP_TYPE = setuptools
+PYTHON_CHARDET_LICENSE = LGPLv2.1+
+PYTHON_CHARDET_LICENSE_FILES = LICENSE
+
+$(eval $(python-package))