Unicode support for non-unicode locales

[Matt Mackall]

On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 02:13:29PM +0400, tailgunner at smtp.ru wrote:
> 
> 
>  Currently Mercurial lack an ability to convert file names to
> Unicode when working
> 
>  in non-Unicode locales. For example, file names which were added
> and committed
> 
>  in cp-1251 (russian Windows codepage) can't be correctly checked
> out in koi8-r
> 
>  (russian Unix coding) or UTF-8 - they are checked out as cp-1251,
> which is wrong.
> 
>  This patch attempts to fix this by keeping file names in UTF-8
> on-disk, and converting
> 
>  them to local encoding for hg's internal use.

Does it make the corresponding changes to your project's Makefile,
etc., as well? What happens if someone does a checkout in an
ASCII/latin-1 locale?

Filenames, just like their contents, are the users' data. Our mandate
is to preserve that data exactly.

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