Subversion commit email script and "unprintable" characters

2016-01-13 Thread Alfred von Campe
We are using a (very old) commit-email.pl script to send out email notifications from a post-commit hook on our Linux server running Subversion 1.7.5. Lately I’ve noticed some emails that contain lots of “unprintable” characters. Here is a snippet from a recent commit: If it?\226?\128?\15

Re: Subversion commit email script and "unprintable" characters

2016-01-13 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Jan 13, 2016, at 9:27 AM, Alfred von Campe wrote: > > We are using a (very old) commit-email.pl script to send out email > notifications from a post-commit hook on our Linux server running Subversion > 1.7.5. Lately I’ve noticed some emails that contain lots of “unprintable” > characters.

Re: Subversion commit email script and "unprintable" characters

2016-01-13 Thread Alfred von Campe
Thanks for that pointer. I’ve started to look into the new script, and noticed it has an accompanying config file. However, I would like to be able to specify some parameters on the command line because they vary with each commit. For instance, this is how I call the the old Perl script from