[issue2411] hg convert for darcs fails with ISO8859-15 encoded log messages

[Goetz Pfeiffer]

New submission from Goetz Pfeiffer <Goetz.Pfeiffer at helmholtz-berlin.de>:

The command "hg convert" on a darcs repository fails when the log messages
in that repository contain ISO8859-15 encoded strings. This is probably also
the case for other encodings that are not UTF-8.

I have tested this with mercurial 1.6.3 on a fedora12 system.

Here is a receipt to reproduce the problem (needs darcs):
mkdir test
cd test 
darcs init
echo "first version" > file
darcs add file
echo "Ãœberraschung" | iconv -f utf-8 -t iso8859-15 > log
darcs record --logfile log -A "johndoe at somecompany" -a
cd ..
hg convert test

A possible solution is added as a patch file here. This patch has to be 
applied to
/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/hgext/convert/darcs.py

In my solution, the encoding of log messages of the source repository 
can be given as an environment variable. So 

HG_CONVERTER_ENCODING=iso8859-15 hg convert test

works with the darcs repo mentioned in the paragraph above.

Maybe this or another similar solution can be considered in the next
release of mercurial ?

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files: HGPATCH
messages: 13802
nosy: goetzp
priority: bug
status: unread
title: hg convert for darcs fails with ISO8859-15 encoded log messages
topic: convert

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