factoring out the ascii fix to a separate bash script

util/jenkins/ansible-configure.sh

@@ -17,6 +17,11 @@
 
 
 export BOTO_CONFIG=/var/lib/jenkins/${aws_account}.boto
+
+dir=$(dirname $0)
+source "${dir}/ascii-convert.sh"
+
+
 if [[ -z $dns_name ]]; then
   echo "The hostname is required to know what machine to configure"
   exit 1

util/jenkins/ansible-provision.sh

@@ -19,16 +19,8 @@
 # - name_tag
 
 export BOTO_CONFIG=/var/lib/jenkins/${aws_account}.boto
-
-function ascii_convert {
-  echo $1 | iconv -f utf8 -t ascii//TRANSLIT//IGNORE
-}
-
-# remove non-ascii chars from build user vars
-BUILD_USER_LAST_NAME=$(ascii_convert $BUILD_USER_LAST_NAME)
-BUILD_USER_FIRST_NAME=$(ascii_convert $BUILD_USER_FIRST_NAME)
-BUILD_USER_ID=$(ascii_convert $BUILD_USER_ID)
-BUILD_USER=$(ascii_convert $BUILD_USER)
+dir=$(dirname $0)
+source "${dir}/ascii-convert.sh"
 
 if [[ -z $github_username  ]]; then
   github_username=$BUILD_USER_ID