Unicode support for non-unicode locales

[Jonathan S. Shapiro]

On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 10:59 +0200, Gábor Farkas wrote:
> Jonathan S. Shapiro wrote:
> > 
> > Getting file names properly encoded is less difficult. Full support for
> > Unicode is hard.
> > 
> 
> i understand..
> 
> but the difference is that when it's about reading the content of a 
> text-file, the user can simply specify the encoding in his text-editor.
> 
> but when getting a copy of a hg-repo with non-ascii filenames in it, and 
>   you have an utf-16 filesystem, and the file was added to the hg-repo 
> in utf-8, what can you do?

Gabor:

I think you are right that file names are more important. What I'm
trying to say is that this is a "pandora's box" type of thing. It would
be good to think out the unicode issues comprehensively.

shap