diff --git a/tools/update-unicode-data.sh b/tools/update-unicode-data.sh
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+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+if [ ! -d "$1" ]; then
+    echo "Usage $(basename "$0") UCD-directory [version]"
+    exit 1
+fi
+
+ucd=$(realpath "$1")
+version=$2
+glib_dir=$(git -C "$(dirname "$0")" rev-parse --show-toplevel)
+
+# shellcheck disable=SC2144 # we only want to match a file like this
+if ! [ -f "$ucd"/UnicodeData*.txt ] || ! [ -f "$ucd"/CaseFolding.*txt ]; then
+    echo "'$ucd' does not look like an Unicode Database directory";
+fi
+
+if [ -z "$version" ]; then
+    readme=("$ucd"/ReadMe*.txt)
+    version=$(sed -n "s,.*Version \([0-9.]\+\) of the Unicode Standard.*,\1,p" \
+        "${readme[@]}")
+
+    if [ -z "$version" ]; then
+        echo "Invalid version found"
+        exit 1
+    fi
+fi
+
+cd "$glib_dir" || exit 1
+
+echo "Updating generated code to Unicode version $version"
+set -xe
+
+(cd glib && ./gen-unicode-tables.pl -both "$version" "$ucd")
+glib/tests/gen-casefold-txt.py "$version" \
+    "$ucd"/CaseFolding*.txt > glib/tests/casefold.txt
+glib/tests/gen-casemap-txt.py "$version" \
+    "$ucd"/UnicodeData*.txt \
+    "$ucd"/SpecialCasing*.txt > glib/tests/casemap.txt