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+#! /usr/bin/env perl
+
+use strict;
+use warnings;
+
+# Convert the contents of a file into a C string constant.
+# Note that the compiler will implicitly add an extra 0 byte at the end
+# of every string, so code using the string may need to remove that to get
+# the exact contents of the original file.
+# FIXME: why not a char array?
+
+# treat only alphanumeric and not-" punctuation as safe
+my $unsafe_chars = qr{[^][A-Za-z0-9!#%&'()*+,./:;<=>?^_{|}~ -]};
+
+for my $file (@ARGV) {
+    open my $fh, '<:raw', $file or next;
+    print "/* Generated from $file */\n";
+    while (<$fh>) {
+        # replace unsafe chars with their equivalent octal escapes
+        s/($unsafe_chars)/\\@{[sprintf '%03o', ord($1)]}/gos;
+        print "\"$_\"\n"
+    }
+    close $fh;
+}