[issue2929] When Mercurial will support unicode on Windows?

[Der_Meister]

New submission from Der_Meister <der at heavysoft.ru>:

I've read this document:
http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/EncodingStrategy#UTF-8_strings

This is absurd! Windows filenames are stored in unicode. Why Mercurial 
uses old 8-bit functions?

I use really great extension fixutf8. It helps me. Without it I can't work 
with german names (Tabellenblätter.xml) at all.

I think Mecurial team should review the encoding strategy. Everything in 
UTF-8 will be cool. Or simply include fixutf8 to official builds.

Thanks.

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nosy: Der_Meister
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status: unread
title: When Mercurial will support unicode on Windows?

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