[PATCH 1 of 2] encoding: add BOM (byte-order-mark) handling function (issue2162)

[Yuya Nishihara]

Martin Geisler wrote:
> Matt Mackall <mpm at selenic.com> writes:
> 
> > On Sat, 2010-06-19 at 22:56 +0900, Yuya Nishihara wrote:
> >> # HG changeset patch
> >> # User Yuya Nishihara <yuya at tcha.org>
> >> # Date 1276951076 -32400
> >> # Node ID 19dc05994d6cc2727efbde32c53bcbb1dfbdc83b
> >> # Parent  e5a2134c083b223bd2998b6694e430e4999caee3
> >> encoding: add BOM (byte-order-mark) handling function (issue2162)
> >
> > Ok, these are:
> >
> > a) a bit late for the code freeze
> > b) a little questionable (why are people saving config files in
> >    UTF-8?)
> 
> Most likely because of non-ASCII characters in ui.username.

And I've seen non-ASCII comment line.
IIRC, TortoiseHg 1.0 generated Mercurial.ini with translated comment, though
it's fixed in 1.0.1.

> I'm going to duck these for now, let's talk about this for 1.7.

I agree that it's too late for 1.6.
Thank you.

Yuya,