diff --git a/dev-qt/qtwebengine-dicts/metadata.xml b/dev-qt/qtwebengine-dicts/metadata.xml
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
+<pkgmetadata>
+	<maintainer type="project">
+		<email>qt@gentoo.org</email>
+		<name>Gentoo Qt Project</name>
+	</maintainer>
+	<maintainer type="person">
+		<email>jsbronder@gentoo.org</email>
+		<name>Justin Bronder</name>
+	</maintainer>
+	<upstream>
+		<bugs-to>https://bugreports.qt.io/</bugs-to>
+		<doc>https://doc.qt.io/</doc>
+	</upstream>
+</pkgmetadata>
diff --git a/dev-qt/qtwebengine-dicts/qtwebengine-dicts-1.0.ebuild b/dev-qt/qtwebengine-dicts/qtwebengine-dicts-1.0.ebuild
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+# Copyright 1999-2017 Gentoo Foundation
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=6
+
+inherit qmake-utils
+
+DESCRIPTION="Hunspell dictionaries for QtWebEngine"
+HOMEPAGE="https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtwebengine-webenginewidgets-spellchecker-example.html"
+SRC_URI=""
+
+LICENSE="GPL-2"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~x86"
+IUSE=""
+
+# Cribbed from app-text/hunspell
+LANGS="af bg ca cs cy da de de-1901 el en eo es et fo fr ga gl he hr hu ia id
+is it kk km ku lt lv mi mk ms nb nl nn pl pt pt-BR ro ru sk sl sq sv sw tn uk
+zu"
+
+DEPEND="
+	app-dicts/myspell-en
+	dev-qt/qtwebengine:5"
+
+for lang in ${LANGS}; do
+	IUSE+=" l10n_${lang}"
+	case ${lang} in
+		de-1901) dict="de_1901";;
+		pt-BR)   dict="pt-br";;
+		*)       dict="${lang}";;
+	esac
+	DEPEND+=" l10n_${lang}? ( app-dicts/myspell-${dict} )"
+done
+unset dict lang
+
+RDEPEND="${DEPEND}"
+
+S="${WORKDIR}"
+
+src_configure() {
+	:
+}
+
+src_compile() {
+	local dicts
+	local dic
+	local bdic_fn
+	local prefix
+
+	mkdir -p "${T}"/bdics || die
+
+	# File-renaming done to match
+	# https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/deps/hunspell_dictionaries.git/+/master
+
+	# TODO:  This doesn't respect the l10n USE flags for the package and rather
+	# just builds qtwebengine dictionaries for everything that is installed.
+	# It's not immediately obvious how to filter as there isn't a consistent
+	# map from language to dictionaries.  For example:
+	# 	en: en_AU, en_CA, en_GB, en_US, en_ZA
+	# 	kk: kk_KZ, kk_noun_adj, kk_test
+	# 	pt-BR: pt_BR
+	# etc.
+	for dic in "${EPREFIX}"/usr/share/hunspell/*.dic; do
+		bdic_fn=$(basename ${dic})
+		bdic_fn=${bdic_fn%.dic}.bdic
+		bdic_fn=${bdic_fn/_/-}
+
+		$(qt5_get_bindir)/qwebengine_convert_dict \
+			${dic} \
+			"${T}"/bdics/${bdic_fn} || die
+	done
+}
+
+src_install() {
+	insinto /usr/share/qt5/qtwebengine_dictionaries
+	doins "${T}"/bdics/*.bdic
+}