diff --git a/app-text/unicode/Manifest b/app-text/unicode/Manifest
index 909f0ae..a57597f 100644
--- a/app-text/unicode/Manifest
+++ b/app-text/unicode/Manifest
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 DIST unicode_2.7.orig.tar.gz 20428 BLAKE2B b150f4bdc6249b89089fa75bf55fe96e0a07cc87dadf612f68c0606269d519c5da9c13e93b00778e5721ccf35dd43f181e5064b52decf9c93b4fb3960bb27d77 SHA512 ce072b1a706eb034ecf9dedbac41b42699b79a6de217444ded66efce52d9648e456d15eab8400a0b9adaa0947cac961afecb9bacb3e8422bc8db09a3dc3bd60f
+DIST unicode_2.8.orig.tar.gz 20931 BLAKE2B 318166b56a6fe4a3e7be89bf0c7927353e1f4a06ea25c31767ae56215f0ef194f66f787a152432f6081c015bfd657a29f2ac483348409d50e1cab800c6247446 SHA512 8f399c61eda7edf945d3dae9fec2d2d7dc77694e78c118799a5dc945ff6b720f14cdcf033bc3ae5a9e934a10965733178620cd06c69841c71d1a0835bf47d804
diff --git a/app-text/unicode/unicode-2.8.ebuild b/app-text/unicode/unicode-2.8.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8ae6885
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app-text/unicode/unicode-2.8.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+# Copyright 2020-2021 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=7
+
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{8,9} )
+inherit distutils-r1
+
+DESCRIPTION="display unicode character properties"
+HOMEPAGE="https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/unicode"
+SRC_URI="mirror://debian/pool/main/u/${PN}/${PN}_${PV}.orig.tar.gz"
+
+LICENSE="GPL-3"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86"
+IUSE=""
+
+DEPEND="app-i18n/unicode-data"
+RDEPEND="${DEPEND}"
+BDEPEND=""
+
+DOCS=(README{,-paracode} debian/changelog)
+
+src_install() {
+	doman unicode.1
+	distutils-r1_src_install
+}