recode text files in repo

[Steve Fink]

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

No promises, but you could give this a try: 
https://hg.sr.ht/~sfink/cmdconvert

Clone it to somewhere like ~/lib/hg. Add

     [extensions]
     cmdconvert = ~/lib/hg/cmdconvert

to your ~/.hgrc (or hgrc.ini or whatever it is on Windows.)

Then try running

     hg convert --command 'iconv -f KOI8-R -t UTF8' your_repo new_repo

Odds of it working on the first try are somewhat low (I don't really 
know what I'm doing.)

If you want to restrict by file extension, do something like

     hg convert --ext .txt --ext .html --command 'iconv -f KOI8-R -t 
UTF8' your_repo new_repo

It's not going to be fast, either.