D2057: rust implementation of hg status

[durin42 (Augie Fackler)]

durin42 added a comment.


  In https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D2057#43892, @kevincox wrote:
  
  > On a higher level, all of these code appears to be treating file names as strings. This isn't really true and will disallow some valid file names. Maybe we should stick with bytes throughout. Of course this makes windows filepaths difficult because they are actually (utf16) strings.
  
  
  Mercurial tries to be principled about always treating filenames as bytes. AIUI https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/WindowsUTF8Plan is still the plan of record there?

REPOSITORY
  rHG Mercurial

REVISION DETAIL
  https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D2057

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