[issue600] OS X encoding casues LookupError

[Carson Reynolds]

New submission from Carson Reynolds <carson at k2.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp>:

On the OS X platform in util.py, tolocal(s) is causing a LookupError. This is
because locale.getpreferredencoding() returns (in my case) 'X-MAC-JAPANESE'
which python is unable to encode as UTF-8. I think this problem effects at least
OS X with non-western locales and possibly 'X-MAC-ROMAN' but have not verified.

One possible fix was listed here:

http://paste.lisp.org/display/42612

In the mean time, as a workaround, export HGENCODING="UTF-8" causes hg to work
as expected.

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messages: 3350
nosy: carson
priority: bug
status: unread
title: OS X encoding casues LookupError
topic: macos

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