import: set binmode before printing author names

Author names may have wide characters in them, so avoid warnings
as git favors UTF-8 for names and fast-import even requires them
for commit messages

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/lib/PublicInbox/Import.pm b/lib/PublicInbox/Import.pm
index e2156f10..4c7bbf14 100644
--- a/lib/PublicInbox/Import.pm
+++ b/lib/PublicInbox/Import.pm
@@ -162,11 +162,16 @@ sub add {
         unless ($parent) {
                 print $w "reset $ref\n" or wfail;
         }
+
+        # quiet down wide character warnings:
+        binmode $w, ':utf8' or die "binmode :utf8 failed: $!";
         print $w "commit $ref\nmark :$commit\n",
                 "author $name <$email> $date\n",
                 "committer $self->{ident} ", now2822(), "\n",
                 "data ", (length($subject) + 1), "\n",
                 $subject, "\n\n" or wfail;
+        binmode $w, ':raw' or die "binmode :raw failed: $!";
+
         if ($tip ne '') {
                 print $w 'from ', ($parent ? $parent : $tip), "\n" or wfail;
         }