CDRIVER-2285 check that NEWS is a UTF-8 file

Author: ajdavis

.evergreen/check-release-archive.sh

@@ -2,6 +2,13 @@
 set -o xtrace   # Write all commands first to stderr
 set -o errexit  # Exit the script with error if any of the commands fail
 
+# Check that a CLion user didn't accidentally convert NEWS from UTF-8 to ASCII
+news_type=`file NEWS`
+echo "NEWS file type is $news_type"
+case "$news_type" in
+  *ASCII*) exit 1 ;;
+esac
+
 # Use modern sphinx-build from venv.
 . venv/bin/activate
 which sphinx-build