Ye olde logo contest

[Jesse Glick]

Jens Alfke wrote:
> I chose the symbol because it's a more interesting-looking variant of
> the common planetary symbol for Mercury.

By the way one odd benefit of using the standard symbol is that it has 
its own Unicode codepoint (U+263F ☿) which is easier to display in 
wikis, emails, etc. than an actual graphic. Unfortunately

--- a/mercurial/commands.py
+++ b/mercurial/commands.py
@@ -2641,8 +2641,12 @@ def verify(ui, repo):

  def version_(ui):
      """output version and copyright information"""
-    ui.write(_("Mercurial Distributed SCM (version %s)\n")
-             % version.get_version())
+    ui.write(_("Mercurial "))
+    try:
+        print u'\u263f ',
+    except:
+        pass
+    ui.write(_("Distributed SCM (version %s)\n") % version.get_version())
      ui.status(_(
          "\nCopyright (C) 2005-2008 Matt Mackall <mpm at selenic.com> and 
others\n"
          "This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. "

works on Linux but not Vista. :-(