bug#34862: 27.0.50; Trying to update pinyin.map

[Eric Abrahamsen]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
>> Cc: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>,  34862@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.