sapling/hgext3rd/checkmessagehook.py

import string

from mercurial.i18n import _

def reposetup(ui, repo):
    ui.setconfig('hooks', 'pretxncommit.checkmessage', checkcommitmessage)

def checkcommitmessage(ui, repo, **kwargs):
    """
    Checks a single commit message for adherence to commit message rules.
    """
    hg_commit_message = repo['tip'].description()
    try:
        hg_commit_message.decode('utf8')
    except UnicodeDecodeError:
        ui.warn(_('commit message is not utf-8\n'))
        return True

    printable = set(string.printable)
    for c in hg_commit_message:
        if ord(c) < 128 and c not in printable:
            ui.warn(_('non-printable characters in commit message\n'))
            return True

    # False means success
    return False