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27.0.50; Trying to update pinyin.map

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Message #29 received at 34862 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric <at> ericabrahamsen.net>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 34862 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, rms <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#34862: 27.0.50; Trying to update pinyin.map
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2019 12:41:45 -0700

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric <at> ericabrahamsen.net>
>> Cc: Richard Stallman <rms <at> gnu.org>,  34862 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
>> Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2019 12:30:22 -0700
>> 
>> > I think this should be done with a script, and that script should be
>> > in our repository.  The easiest kind of a script is a Lisp program, of
>> > course, but we can also use other kinds, such as Awk scripts.
>> 
>> Awk seems just right for the problem, but I haven't written much in it;
>> I did the original munging in elisp. Would this be a script written for
>> use with -batch and a custom make target?
>
> Yes.
>
>> should it also be responsible for downloading a recent copy of the
>> source file, or should that be done first, and the function pointed
>> at the file?
>
> The latter, I think.  That's what we do with the other data files we
> use from external sources, e.g. see admin/unidata/.

Understood -- thanks for this.

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