iconvdata perl-ectomy

[Ulrich Drepper]

Zack Weinberg <zack@rabi.phys.columbia.edu> writes:

> This patch replaces iconvdata's perl scripts with awk scripts, which
> lets us build all the modules all the time.  It also appears to be a
> tad faster (with mawk anyway).

You really don't like Perl, do you? :-)  Anyhow, thanks for the patch.

> A better way to read hex numbers in awk would be appreciated.

You should talk to Aharon Robbins, the GNU awk author.  Maybe he has a
proposal.  If there is a GNU awk extension one could use it.

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