* On 06 Aug 2015, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote: 
> Christian Brabandt wrote:
> > Yeah, the sed script is not portable. Better to replace it by perl 
> > (patch attached)
> 
> Thanks for the patch.  Is there any reason you didn't translate
> > -       -e 's/??/\?\?/g' \
> to perl?
> 
> dgc, looks like you originally committed this, do you have any comments?

I tend to avoid perl/python/etc when more basic utilities will do.  It's
true that virtually every system has perl preinstalled now, but mutt
is also used on very bare-bones platforms (which is why the C version
exists; there's a C compiler by definition).

1. We can support BSD's sed for txt2c.sh. The difference is just that
BSD sed only supports \n a an ascii escape.  (Will need literals in the
makefile.)  But -

2. Why does the compiler fail? That needs to be addressed too.

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