--- /dev/null
+#! /bin/bash
+# SPDX-license-identifier: Apache-2.0
+##############################################################################
+# Copyright (c) 2016 Linux Foundation and others.
+# All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
+# are made available under the terms of the Apache License, Version 2.0
+# which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
+# http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+##############################################################################
+#test for non-ascii characters, these can pass the test and end up breaking things in production
+for x in $(find . -name *\.yml); do
+
+ if LC_ALL=C grep -q '[^[:print:][:space:]]' "$x"; then
+ echo "file "$x" contains non-ascii characters"
+ exit 1
+ fi
+
+done
+
+jenkins-jobs test -r jjb/releng-defaults.yaml:jjb/releng-macros.yaml:jjb/opnfv/installer-params.yml:jjb/opnfv/slave-params.yml:jjb-sandbox \
+ -o job_output