Re: Failing of the script get_maintainer.pl

From: Vaishali Thakkar
Date: Wed Nov 02 2016 - 13:34:23 EST




On Wednesday 02 November 2016 10:28 PM, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Wed, 2016-11-02 at 22:07 +0530, Vaishali Thakkar wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> The script get_maintainer.pl fails with the following message/warning:
>>
>> Unrecognized character \xA0; marked by <-- HERE after <-- HERE near column 1 at scripts/get_maintainer.pl line 277.
>>
>> This seems to be because of the commit b67071653d3fc9f9b73aab3e7978f060728bf392.
>>
>> Any idea about the solution(s)?
>
> Unfortunately, Evolution is a horribly broken email client
> for sending patches.
>
> It's been fixed at least in Andrew Morton's mm, and it
> should be in -next soonish.
>
> You could do a sed until then:
>
> $ sed -i -e "s/\xA0/ /g" scripts/get_maintainer.pl

Ok, makes sense. Thanks.

>

--
Vaishali