diff --git a/package/Config.in b/package/Config.in
index 36a4915922..fa42afb6c5 100644
--- a/package/Config.in
+++ b/package/Config.in
@@ -504,6 +504,7 @@ if BR2_PACKAGE_PERL
 menu "Perl libraries/modules"
 	source "package/perl-datetime-tiny/Config.in"
 	source "package/perl-digest-hmac/Config.in"
+	source "package/perl-encode-locale/Config.in"
 	source "package/perl-file-util/Config.in"
 	source "package/perl-gd/Config.in"
 	source "package/perl-gdgraph/Config.in"
diff --git a/package/perl-encode-locale/Config.in b/package/perl-encode-locale/Config.in
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..d15aecbdfa
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/perl-encode-locale/Config.in
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+config BR2_PACKAGE_PERL_ENCODE_LOCALE
+	bool "perl-encode-locale"
+	help
+	  Determine the locale encoding
+
+	  https://github.com/gisle/encode-locale
diff --git a/package/perl-encode-locale/perl-encode-locale.hash b/package/perl-encode-locale/perl-encode-locale.hash
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..d1abef5600
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/perl-encode-locale/perl-encode-locale.hash
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+# retrieved by scancpan from http://cpan.metacpan.org/
+md5    0565984b048732e4fd1315212f21d462 Encode-Locale-1.04.tar.gz
+sha256 33aca4aa35829bd5c8c5e64ebfde86d0a2e8cd59dac2c4de707ffe9dc10bfbd4 Encode-Locale-1.04.tar.gz
diff --git a/package/perl-encode-locale/perl-encode-locale.mk b/package/perl-encode-locale/perl-encode-locale.mk
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..fd7148e78e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/perl-encode-locale/perl-encode-locale.mk
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+################################################################################
+#
+# perl-encode-locale
+#
+################################################################################
+
+PERL_ENCODE_LOCALE_VERSION = 1.04
+PERL_ENCODE_LOCALE_SOURCE = Encode-Locale-$(PERL_ENCODE_LOCALE_VERSION).tar.gz
+PERL_ENCODE_LOCALE_SITE = $(BR2_CPAN_MIRROR)/authors/id/G/GA/GAAS
+PERL_ENCODE_LOCALE_DEPENDENCIES = perl
+PERL_ENCODE_LOCALE_LICENSE = Artistic or GPLv1+
+PERL_ENCODE_LOCALE_LICENSE_FILES = README
+
+$(eval $(perl-package))