diff --git a/srcpkgs/terminal_markdown_viewer/patches/unichr.patch b/srcpkgs/terminal_markdown_viewer/patches/unichr.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..996e27b2aa7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/terminal_markdown_viewer/patches/unichr.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+--- mdv/markdownviewer.py.orig
++++ mdv/markdownviewer.py
+@@ -129,6 +129,9 @@
+ import io
+ import os
+ import sys
++
++PY3 = True if sys.version_info[0] > 2 else False
++
+ import textwrap
+ is_app = 0
+ # code analysis for hilite:
+@@ -158,6 +161,9 @@
+     from HTMLParser import HTMLParser
+ envget = os.environ.get
+ 
++if PY3:
++    unichr = chr
++
+ # ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Config
+ hr_sep, txt_block_cut, code_pref, list_pref, bquote_pref, hr_ends = \
+     '─', '✂', '| ', '- ', '|', '◈'
diff --git a/srcpkgs/terminal_markdown_viewer/template b/srcpkgs/terminal_markdown_viewer/template
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..5cf55c57f30
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/terminal_markdown_viewer/template
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+# Template file for 'terminal_markdown_viewer'
+pkgname=terminal_markdown_viewer
+version=1.6.3
+revision=1
+noarch=yes
+build_style=python3-module
+pycompile_module="mdv"
+hostmakedepends="python3-setuptools"
+depends="python3-docopt python3-Markdown python3-Pygments python3-tabulate python3-yaml"
+short_desc="Styled Terminal Markdown Viewer"
+maintainer="Andrew Benson <abenson@gmail.com>"
+license="BSD-3-Clause"
+homepage="https://github.com/axiros/terminal_markdown_viewer"
+distfiles="${homepage}/archive/${version}.tar.gz"
+checksum=58dbdf8c051a2d7f8c00e4dc13c655c335cbc2bc96851dd0388d73a21c4507b6
+
+post_install() {
+	vlicense LICENSE
+}