recode text files in repo

[Victor Sudakov]

Victor Sudakov wrote:
> Steve Fink wrote:
> > One way would be `hg convert` with a custom conversion script. See the
> > "Customization" example at the bottom of
> > <https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/ConvertExtension>. It looks like
> > you could override only getfile(), and make it return modified data.
> 
> That would require coding, sounds a bit complicated.
> 
> I was thinking of "hg export" to a text file (or a set of files) under
> ru_RU.KOI8-R locale, processing them with recode/iconv/etc and importing
> them (into a different repo) under the ru_RU.UTF-8 locale. Will that
> work?

It does not. It turned out that the result of "hg export" cannot be
easily "hg import"-ed, because "hg import" tries to commit and generates
errors.

"bundle | unbundle" works, but a bundle (even uncompressed) is binary
and cannot be recoded.

Please help. 

Does anybody know how to configure "hg convert" to put all text files
through "iconv -f KOI8-R -t UTF8" ?


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