diff -ur a/dev-db/unixODBC/metadata.xml b/dev-db/unixODBC/metadata.xml
--- a/dev-db/unixODBC/metadata.xml	2011-09-24 00:08:05.000000000 +0200
+++ b/dev-db/unixODBC/metadata.xml	2013-02-11 16:12:20.422239779 +0100
@@ -8,5 +8,7 @@
   <use>
     <flag name="minimal">Disable bundled drivers and extra libraries (most users don't need these)</flag>
     <flag name="odbcmanual">Administrator, Internal Structure, Programmer and User documentation</flag>
+    <flag name="iconv-char-enc-utf8"></flag>
+    <flag name="iconv-ucode-enc-utf16le"></flag>
   </use>
 </pkgmetadata>
diff -ur a/dev-db/unixODBC/unixODBC-2.3.1.ebuild b/dev-db/unixODBC/unixODBC-2.3.1.ebuild
--- a/dev-db/unixODBC/unixODBC-2.3.1.ebuild	2012-05-12 03:31:06.000000000 +0200
+++ b/dev-db/unixODBC/unixODBC-2.3.1.ebuild	2013-02-11 16:04:11.617929222 +0100
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
 LICENSE="GPL-2 LGPL-2.1"
 SLOT="0"
 KEYWORDS="alpha amd64 arm hppa ia64 ~mips ppc ppc64 s390 sh sparc x86 ~amd64-fbsd ~x86-fbsd ~x86-freebsd ~amd64-linux ~x86-linux ~ppc-macos ~x64-macos ~x86-macos ~sparc-solaris ~sparc64-solaris ~x64-solaris ~x86-solaris"
-IUSE="+minimal odbcmanual static-libs"
+IUSE="+minimal odbcmanual static-libs iconv-char-enc-utf8 iconv-ucode-enc-utf16le"
 
 RDEPEND=">=sys-devel/libtool-2.2.6b
 	>=sys-libs/readline-6.1
@@ -33,7 +33,11 @@
 		--sysconfdir="${EPREFIX}"/etc/${PN} \
 		$(use_enable static-libs static) \
 		$(use_enable !minimal drivers) \
-		$(use_enable !minimal driverc)
+		$(use_enable !minimal driverc) \
+		$(use_enable iconv-char-enc-utf8 iconv) \
+		$(use_enable iconv-ucode-enc-utf16le iconv) \
+		$(use_with iconv-char-enc-utf8 iconv-char-enc UTF8) \
+		$(use_with iconv-ucode-enc-utf16le iconv-ucode-enc UTF16LE)
 }
 
 src_install() {