diff --git a/scripts/download-unicode-files.sh b/scripts/download-unicode-files.sh
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index f0fd4c66ea..0000000000
--- a/scripts/download-unicode-files.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,36 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-
-set -e
-data_files="UnicodeData.txt CaseFolding.txt EastAsianWidth.txt"
-emoji_files="emoji-data.txt"
-files="'$data_files $emoji_files'"
-
-UNIDIR_DEFAULT=src/unicode
-DOWNLOAD_URL_BASE_DEFAULT='http://unicode.org/Public'
-
-if test "$1" = '--help' ; then
-  echo 'Usage:'
-  echo "  $0[ TARGET_DIRECTORY[ URL_BASE]]"
-  echo
-  echo "Downloads files $files to TARGET_DIRECTORY."
-  echo "Each file is downloaded from URL_BASE/\$filename."
-  echo
-  echo "Default target directory is $PWD/${UNIDIR_DEFAULT}."
-  echo "Default URL base is ${DOWNLOAD_URL_BASE_DEFAULT}."
-  exit 0
-fi
-
-UNIDIR=${1:-$UNIDIR_DEFAULT}
-DOWNLOAD_URL_BASE=${2:-$DOWNLOAD_URL_BASE_DEFAULT}
-
-for filename in $data_files ; do
-  curl -L -o "$UNIDIR/$filename" "$DOWNLOAD_URL_BASE/UNIDATA/$filename"
-  git -C "$UNIDIR" add "$filename"
-done
-
-for filename in $emoji_files ; do
-  curl -L -o "$UNIDIR/$filename" "$DOWNLOAD_URL_BASE/UNIDATA/emoji/$filename"
-  git -C "$UNIDIR" add "$filename"
-done
-
-git -C "$UNIDIR" commit -m "feat: update unicode tables" .