diff --git a/maintainers/scripts/gnome.sh b/maintainers/scripts/gnome.sh
index f77dc5a9e64c..d44bda53f8d6 100755
--- a/maintainers/scripts/gnome.sh
+++ b/maintainers/scripts/gnome.sh
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ GNOME_FTP=ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources
 
 # projects that don't follow the GNOME major versioning, or that we don't want to
 # programmatically update
-NO_GNOME_MAJOR="ghex gtkhtml gdm"
+NO_GNOME_MAJOR="ghex gtkhtml gdm gucharmap"
 
 usage() {
   echo "Usage: $0 <show project>|<update project>|<update-all> [major.minor]" >&2
diff --git a/pkgs/desktops/gnome-3/core/gucharmap/default.nix b/pkgs/desktops/gnome-3/core/gucharmap/default.nix
index 05aff866606f..58d9901ad012 100644
--- a/pkgs/desktops/gnome-3/core/gucharmap/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/desktops/gnome-3/core/gucharmap/default.nix
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 { stdenv, intltool, fetchurl, pkgconfig, gtk3
 , glib, desktop_file_utils, bash, appdata-tools
-, makeWrapper, gnome3, file, itstool, libxml2 }:
+, wrapGAppsHook, gnome3, itstool, libxml2
+, callPackage, unzip }:
 
 # TODO: icons and theme still does not work
 # use packaged gnome3.adwaita-icon-theme
@@ -12,16 +13,17 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   propagatedUserEnvPkgs = [ gnome3.gnome_themes_standard ];
 
-  preConfigure = "substituteInPlace ./configure --replace /usr/bin/file ${file}/bin/file";
+  preConfigure = "patchShebangs gucharmap/gen-guch-unicode-tables.pl";
 
-  buildInputs = [ pkgconfig gtk3 intltool itstool glib appdata-tools
-                  gnome3.yelp_tools libxml2 file desktop_file_utils
-                  gnome3.gsettings_desktop_schemas makeWrapper ];
+  nativeBuildInputs = [ pkgconfig wrapGAppsHook unzip ];
 
-  preFixup = ''
-    wrapProgram "$out/bin/gucharmap" \
-      --prefix XDG_DATA_DIRS : "${gnome3.gnome_themes_standard}/share:$out/share:$GSETTINGS_SCHEMAS_PATH"
-  '';
+  buildInputs = [ gtk3 intltool itstool glib appdata-tools
+                  gnome3.yelp_tools libxml2 desktop_file_utils
+                  gnome3.gsettings_desktop_schemas ];
+
+  unicode-data = callPackage ./unicode-data.nix {};
+
+  configureFlags = "--with-unicode-data=${unicode-data}";
 
   meta = with stdenv.lib; {
     homepage = https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Gucharmap;
diff --git a/pkgs/desktops/gnome-3/core/gucharmap/src.nix b/pkgs/desktops/gnome-3/core/gucharmap/src.nix
index 69c0dd600251..67d00c269f53 100644
--- a/pkgs/desktops/gnome-3/core/gucharmap/src.nix
+++ b/pkgs/desktops/gnome-3/core/gucharmap/src.nix
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 # Autogenerated by maintainers/scripts/gnome.sh update
 
 fetchurl: {
-  name = "gucharmap-3.18.2";
+  name = "gucharmap-10.0.1";
 
   src = fetchurl {
-    url = mirror://gnome/sources/gucharmap/3.18/gucharmap-3.18.2.tar.xz;
-    sha256 = "80141d3e892c3c4812c1a8fad8f89978559ef19e933843267e6e9a5524c09ec9";
+    url = mirror://gnome/sources/gucharmap/10.0/gucharmap-10.0.1.tar.xz;
+    sha256 = "51a2bf91c4590ea2159f828156864f088a0bd4c12e7a1c396002a23d48b2d5e2";
   };
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/desktops/gnome-3/core/gucharmap/unicode-data.nix b/pkgs/desktops/gnome-3/core/gucharmap/unicode-data.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..84770a17162c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/desktops/gnome-3/core/gucharmap/unicode-data.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+{fetchurl, stdenv}:
+stdenv.mkDerivation {
+  name = "unicode-data-10.0.0";
+  srcs = [
+    (fetchurl {
+      url = "http://www.unicode.org/Public/10.0.0/ucd/Blocks.txt";
+      sha256 = "19zf2kd198mcv1paa194c1zf36hay1irbxssi35yi2pd8ad69qas";
+    })
+    (fetchurl {
+      url = "http://www.unicode.org/Public/10.0.0/ucd/DerivedAge.txt";
+      sha256 = "1h9p1g0wnh686l6cqar7cmky465vwc6vjzzn1s7v0i9zcjaqkr4h";
+    })
+    (fetchurl {
+      url = "http://www.unicode.org/Public/10.0.0/ucd/NamesList.txt";
+      sha256 = "0gvpcyq852rnlqmx4y5i1by7bavvcw6rj40i54w48yc7xr3zmgd1";
+    })
+    (fetchurl {
+      url = "http://www.unicode.org/Public/10.0.0/ucd/Scripts.txt";
+      sha256 = "0b9prz2hs6w61afqaplcxnv115f8yk4d5hn9dc5hks8nqpj28bnh";
+    })
+    (fetchurl {
+      url = "http://www.unicode.org/Public/10.0.0/ucd/UnicodeData.txt";
+      sha256 = "1cfak1j753zcrbgixwgppyxhm4w8vda8vxhqymi7n5ljfi6kwhjj";
+    })
+    (fetchurl {
+      url = "http://www.unicode.org/Public/10.0.0/ucd/Unihan.zip";
+      sha256 = "199kz6laypkvc0ykms6d7bkb571jmpds39sv2p7kd5jjm1ij08q1";
+    })
+  ];
+  phases = "installPhase";
+  installPhase = with stdenv.lib; ''
+    mkdir $out
+    for f in $srcs;do
+      cp $f $out/$(stripHash $f)
+    done
+  '';
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    homepage = http://www.unicode.org/ucd/;
+    description = "Unicode Character Database";
+    maintainers = gnome3.maintainers;
+    license = licenses.mit;
+    platforms = platforms.all;
+  };
+}