Since the send.py script for invites uses print to emit progress
including the names of contacts to which messages are sent,
redirecting stdout of the script to a local file can result in
encoding errors if some of the names include non-ASCII codepoints
(but not when stdout is your interactive terminal). Setting
PYTHONIOENCODING=utf-8 in the calling environment works around this
nicely.
Change-Id: I52b70c64f8b3a20da5143b31c5090192b0c75c99
Literal $ characters in the template which are not part of a
substitution variable should be doubled to to avoid raising a
ValueError exception.
Change-Id: I14fd33571d63d50fc65e8c87fb10577e691b6c8e
