Windows people: please help check idea for a new Mercurial repository layout

[Risto Kankkunen]

Paul Moore <p.f.moore <at> gmail.com> writes:
> Now given that Unix filenames can contain any (8-bit) characters other
> than '/' and '\0', (c) implies that any scheme must in general
> increase the length of the name.

There are many existing encodings to ASCIIfy strings, like punycode or utf-7.
Maybe one of those would be suitable...