diff --git a/common/shlibs b/common/shlibs
index f6417246834..bde18c12142 100644
--- a/common/shlibs
+++ b/common/shlibs
@@ -4283,3 +4283,6 @@ libpdal_base.so.15 libpdal-2.5.6_1
 libpdal_util.so.15 libpdal-2.5.6_1
 libdisplay-info.so.1 libdisplay-info-0.1.1_1
 libsqsh.so.1 libsqsh-1.3.0_1
+libunicode.so.0.4 libunicode-0.4.0_1
+libunicode_ucd.so.0.4 libunicode-0.4.0_1
+libunicode_loader.so.0.4 libunicode-0.4.0_1
diff --git a/srcpkgs/libunicode-devel b/srcpkgs/libunicode-devel
new file mode 120000
index 00000000000..3ee4071cb0f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/libunicode-devel
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+libunicode
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/srcpkgs/libunicode/template b/srcpkgs/libunicode/template
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..d79dd26d229
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/libunicode/template
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+# Template file for 'libunicode'
+pkgname=libunicode
+version=0.4.0
+revision=1
+_ucd_version=15.0.0
+build_style=cmake
+build_helper="qemu"
+configure_args="-DLIBUNICODE_TESTING=OFF"
+hostmakedepends="python3"
+makedepends="fmt-devel"
+short_desc="Modern C++17 Unicode library"
+maintainer="0x5c <dev@0x5c.io>"
+license="Apache-2.0"
+homepage="https://github.com/contour-terminal/libunicode"
+changelog="https://github.com/contour-terminal/libunicode/raw/master/Changelog.md"
+distfiles="https://github.com/contour-terminal/libunicode/archive/refs/tags/v${version}.tar.gz
+ https://www.unicode.org/Public/${_ucd_version}/ucd/UCD.zip>ucd-${_ucd_version}.zip"
+checksum="a5c8ba2cd3df539985bfafe43f812de143a56f01e4074e95831a37a13606beda
+ 5fbde400f3e687d25cc9b0a8d30d7619e76cb2f4c3e85ba9df8ec1312cb6718c"
+skip_extraction="ucd-${_ucd_version}.zip"
+
+if [ "$XBPS_TARGET_WORDSIZE" -eq 32 ]; then
+	broken="32bit architectures not currently supported, problems with SIMD"
+fi
+
+post_extract() {
+	vsrccopy "ucd-${_ucd_version}.zip" _ucd
+}
+
+libunicode-devel_package() {
+	depends="${sourcepkg}>=${version}_${revision}"
+	short_desc+=" - development files"
+	pkg_install() {
+		vmove usr/include
+		vmove "usr/lib/*.so"
+		vmove usr/lib/cmake
+	}
+}