diff --git a/community/python-cchardet/0001-Add-AArch64-support.patch b/community/python-cchardet/0001-Add-AArch64-support.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..1c59397b6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/community/python-cchardet/0001-Add-AArch64-support.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,70 @@
+From 5bc0cd2eec74456b266a01e48eca4b5f084a3226 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Kevin Mihelich <kevin@archlinuxarm.org>
+Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2015 19:37:56 -0600
+Subject: [PATCH] Add AArch64 support
+
+Signed-off-by: Kevin Mihelich <kevin@archlinuxarm.org>
+---
+ src/ext/libcharsetdetect/nspr-emu/prcpucfg_linux.h | 46 ++++++++++++++++++++++
+ 1 file changed, 46 insertions(+)
+
+diff --git a/src/ext/libcharsetdetect/nspr-emu/prcpucfg_linux.h b/src/ext/libcharsetdetect/nspr-emu/prcpucfg_linux.h
+index 776c21e..2a6b66f 100644
+--- a/src/ext/libcharsetdetect/nspr-emu/prcpucfg_linux.h
++++ b/src/ext/libcharsetdetect/nspr-emu/prcpucfg_linux.h
+@@ -509,6 +509,52 @@
+ #define PR_BYTES_PER_WORD_LOG2   2
+ #define PR_BYTES_PER_DWORD_LOG2  3
+ 
++#elif defined(__aarch64__)
++
++#define IS_LITTLE_ENDIAN 1
++#undef  IS_BIG_ENDIAN
++#define IS_64
++
++#define PR_BYTES_PER_BYTE   1
++#define PR_BYTES_PER_SHORT  2
++#define PR_BYTES_PER_INT    4
++#define PR_BYTES_PER_INT64  8
++#define PR_BYTES_PER_LONG   8
++#define PR_BYTES_PER_FLOAT  4
++#define PR_BYTES_PER_DOUBLE 8
++#define PR_BYTES_PER_WORD   8
++#define PR_BYTES_PER_DWORD  8
++
++#define PR_BITS_PER_BYTE    8
++#define PR_BITS_PER_SHORT   16
++#define PR_BITS_PER_INT     32
++#define PR_BITS_PER_INT64   64
++#define PR_BITS_PER_LONG    64
++#define PR_BITS_PER_FLOAT   32
++#define PR_BITS_PER_DOUBLE  64
++#define PR_BITS_PER_WORD    64
++
++#define PR_BITS_PER_BYTE_LOG2   3
++#define PR_BITS_PER_SHORT_LOG2  4
++#define PR_BITS_PER_INT_LOG2    5
++#define PR_BITS_PER_INT64_LOG2  6
++#define PR_BITS_PER_LONG_LOG2   6
++#define PR_BITS_PER_FLOAT_LOG2  5
++#define PR_BITS_PER_DOUBLE_LOG2 6
++#define PR_BITS_PER_WORD_LOG2   6
++
++#define PR_ALIGN_OF_SHORT   2
++#define PR_ALIGN_OF_INT     4
++#define PR_ALIGN_OF_LONG    8
++#define PR_ALIGN_OF_INT64   8
++#define PR_ALIGN_OF_FLOAT   4
++#define PR_ALIGN_OF_DOUBLE  8
++#define PR_ALIGN_OF_POINTER 8
++#define PR_ALIGN_OF_WORD    8
++
++#define PR_BYTES_PER_WORD_LOG2   3
++#define PR_BYTES_PER_DWORD_LOG2  3
++
+ #elif defined(__hppa__)
+ 
+ #undef  IS_LITTLE_ENDIAN
+-- 
+2.5.3
+
diff --git a/community/python-cchardet/PKGBUILD b/community/python-cchardet/PKGBUILD
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..db46c9088
--- /dev/null
+++ b/community/python-cchardet/PKGBUILD
@@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
+# $Id$
+# Maintainer: Massimiliano Torromeo <massimiliano.torromeo@gmail.com>
+
+# ALARM: Kevin Mihelich <kevin@archlinuxarm.org>
+#  - patch for AArch64
+
+pkgname=python-cchardet
+pkgname=(python-cchardet python2-cchardet)
+pkgver=1.0.0
+pkgrel=2
+pkgdesc="Universal encoding detector faster than chardet."
+url="http://pypi.python.org/pypi/cchardet/"
+makedepends=('cython' 'cython2' 'python-setuptools' 'python2-setuptools')
+license=('MIT')
+arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
+source=(http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/c/cchardet/cchardet-$pkgver.tar.gz
+        0001-Add-AArch64-support.patch)
+sha256sums=('98e6dc7ca225abfa7e559a6450404aeb2f5bea0713afd6dd492c1a51cec57e63'
+            'bb1d1ecbbfb3e26d529209d6e1a6e741fb1a6fe11869f94e8bd567d080b6dfb8')
+
+prepare() {
+    cd "$srcdir/cchardet-$pkgver"
+    patch -p1 -i ../0001-Add-AArch64-support.patch
+}
+
+build() {
+    cd "$srcdir/cchardet-$pkgver"
+
+    rm -rf ../buildpy3; mkdir ../buildpy3
+    python setup.py build -b ../buildpy3
+
+    rm -rf ../buildpy2; mkdir ../buildpy2
+    python2 setup.py build -b ../buildpy2
+    find ../buildpy2 -name \*.py -exec sed -r 's|^#!(.*)python$|#!\1python2|' -i {} +
+}
+
+package_python-cchardet() {
+    depends=(python)
+
+    cd "$srcdir/cchardet-$pkgver"
+    rm -rf build; ln -s ../buildpy3 build
+    python setup.py install --skip-build -O1 --root="$pkgdir"
+}
+
+package_python2-cchardet() {
+    depends=(python2)
+
+    cd "$srcdir/cchardet-$pkgver"
+    rm -rf build; ln -s ../buildpy2 build
+    python2 setup.py install --skip-build -O1 --root="$pkgdir"
+}
+