How to import a diff from machine with different encoding

Matt Mackall mpm at selenic.com
Thu Jan 22 21:27:35 UTC 2015


[context: http://mercurial.markmail.org/thread/te23ip7hqzkyjsux]

On Thu, 2015-01-22 at 21:50 +0100, Ulf Zibis wrote:
> Hm, still no solution?

The short answer is no. Mercurial intentionally will never touch the
encoding of filenames, by philosophy, design, and implementation:

http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/EncodingStrategy

But at some future date, we'll support UTF-8 filenames on Windows to
work around Windows' lack of native UTF-8 support:

http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/WindowsUTF8Plan

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