RFC: safe pattern matching for problematic encoding

[Matt Mackall]

On Thu, 2012-05-31 at 17:44 +0200, Adrian Buehlmann wrote:

> >> BTW, how is "using Unicode API on Windows" plan progressing ?
> >>
> >>    http://www.selenic.com/pipermail/mercurial-devel/2011-December/036385.html
> > 
> > No progress at all. Windows users do apparently not care enough about 
> > the problem to contribute in any way.
> 
> The chances that anyone will succeed at getting anything accomplished
> there are pretty small. Although it's surely a nice black hole for
> wasting your time.

Actually, I don't think that's true at all. I've laid out a plan here:

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

The bulk of that work can be done by anyone in small increments over
multiple releases.

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