diff --git a/dev-util/txt2regex/files/txt2regex-0.8-disable-nls.patch b/dev-util/txt2regex/files/txt2regex-0.8-disable-nls.patch
index 107b1b8237535..878b84a7e3ea4 100644
--- a/dev-util/txt2regex/files/txt2regex-0.8-disable-nls.patch
+++ b/dev-util/txt2regex/files/txt2regex-0.8-disable-nls.patch
@@ -1,13 +1,12 @@
-diff -ur txt2regex-0.8/Makefile txt2regex-0.8.nonls/Makefile
---- txt2regex-0.8/Makefile	2004-09-28 16:04:55 -0500
-+++ txt2regex-0.8.nonls/Makefile	2005-05-14 15:28:38 -0500
-@@ -80,15 +80,8 @@
+--- Makefile.orig	2015-10-13 20:09:55.612486000 +0000
++++ Makefile	2015-10-13 20:11:19.166486000 +0000
+@@ -81,15 +81,9 @@
  	rm -rf $(DISTDIR)
  
  #TODO install man page and README
 -install: mo
--	@[ -d $(LOCALEDIR) ] || mkdir -p $(LOCALEDIR); \
-+install:
++install: 
+ 	@[ -d $(LOCALEDIR) ] || mkdir -p $(LOCALEDIR); \
  	[ -d $(BINDIR) ] || mkdir -p $(BINDIR); \
 -	for pot in `cd $(PODIR) && ls *.mo`; do \
 -		poti=`echo $$pot | sed 's/\.mo$$//'`; \
@@ -15,6 +14,6 @@ diff -ur txt2regex-0.8/Makefile txt2regex-0.8.nonls/Makefile
 -		[ -d $$modir ] || mkdir -p $$modir; \
 -		install -m644 $(PODIR)/$$pot $$modir/$(NAME).mo; \
 -	done; \
- 	sed -e '/^TEXTDOMAINDIR=/s,=.*,=$(LOCALEDIR),' \
+ 	sed -e '/^TEXTDOMAINDIR=/s,=.*,=$(BLOCALEDIR),' \
  	    -e '/^VERSION=/s/=.*/=$(VERSION)/' $(SHSKEL) > $(BINDIR)/$(NAME) && \
  	chmod +x $(BINDIR)/$(NAME) && \
diff --git a/dev-util/txt2regex/files/txt2regex-0.8-textdomaindir.patch b/dev-util/txt2regex/files/txt2regex-0.8-textdomaindir.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..524f2af8b02e4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-util/txt2regex/files/txt2regex-0.8-textdomaindir.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+--- Makefile.orig	2015-10-13 19:24:21.799486000 +0000
++++ Makefile	2015-10-13 19:26:05.187486000 +0000
+@@ -11,7 +11,8 @@
+ 
+ DESTDIR = 
+ BINDIR	= $(DESTDIR)/usr/bin
+-LOCALEDIR = $(DESTDIR)/usr/share/locale
++BLOCALEDIR = /usr/share/locale
++LOCALEDIR = $(DESTDIR)$(BLOCALEDIR)
+ MANDIR = $(DESTDIR)/usr/share/man/man1
+ 
+ TARGET=all
+@@ -89,7 +90,7 @@
+ 		[ -d $$modir ] || mkdir -p $$modir; \
+ 		install -m644 $(PODIR)/$$pot $$modir/$(NAME).mo; \
+ 	done; \
+-	sed -e '/^TEXTDOMAINDIR=/s,=.*,=$(LOCALEDIR),' \
++	sed -e '/^TEXTDOMAINDIR=/s,=.*,=$(BLOCALEDIR),' \
+ 	    -e '/^VERSION=/s/=.*/=$(VERSION)/' $(SHSKEL) > $(BINDIR)/$(NAME) && \
+ 	chmod +x $(BINDIR)/$(NAME) && \
+ 	echo "program '$(NAME)' installed. just run $(BINDIR)/$(NAME)"
diff --git a/dev-util/txt2regex/txt2regex-0.8-r3.ebuild b/dev-util/txt2regex/txt2regex-0.8-r3.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..072f94d38f15a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-util/txt2regex/txt2regex-0.8-r3.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2015 Gentoo Foundation
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+# $Id$
+
+EAPI=5
+
+inherit eutils
+
+DESCRIPTION="A Regular Expression wizard that converts human sentences to regexs"
+HOMEPAGE="http://txt2regex.sourceforge.net/"
+SRC_URI="http://txt2regex.sourceforge.net/${P}.tgz"
+
+LICENSE="GPL-2"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~alpha ~amd64 ~hppa ~mips ~ppc ~ppc64 ~sparc ~x86"
+IUSE="nls cjk"
+
+DEPEND="nls? ( sys-devel/gettext )"
+RDEPEND=">=app-shells/bash-2.04"
+
+src_prepare() {
+	# bug #562856
+	epatch "${FILESDIR}"/"${P}-textdomaindir.patch"
+
+	# bug #93568
+	use nls || epatch "${FILESDIR}"/"${P}-disable-nls.patch"
+
+	use cjk && sed -i -e 's/\xa4/:+:/g' "${S}"/${P}.sh
+}
+
+src_install() {
+	emake install DESTDIR="${D}" MANDIR="${D}"/usr/share/man/man1 install
+	dodoc Changelog NEWS README README.japanese TODO
+	newman txt2regex.man txt2regex.6
+}