Unicode support for non-unicode locales

Johannes Stezenbach js at linuxtv.org
Tue Oct 9 16:59:30 UTC 2007


On Tue, Oct 09, 2007, Matt Mackall wrote:
> 
> But we can't make it better for Shift_JIS without making it worse for
> the rest of the world. Until you come up with a fix that doesn't break
> Makefiles (and a thousand other tools), it's hardly worth talking
> about.

It just crossed my mind that if mercurial has encode/decode hooks
for file content, it might make sense to also have them for file names.

But I don't really have a clue about this, so please don't slap me
too hard ;-) -- I'm assuming encode/decode hooks could be used to
implement a "store as utf-8, convert to local encoding on checkout" policy.


Johannes



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