German umlauts in file names

Marko Kaening mk362 at mch.osram.de
Tue Jun 17 07:31:25 CDT 2008


Hi,

is there really no one out there who ever came across German umlauts in 
file names and commit comments? At least for the latter I noticed some 
mentioning on mercurial's wiki.

But most annoying is for me that I cannot use umlauts in file or path 
names, which pretty much hinders me to switch my existing repos over to 
hg.

I still hope that I just did not set up my TortoiseHg client right. Hope 
there is a switch somewhere in .hgrc or mercurial.ini where I tell the 
client that my server actually uses utf8 and the client window's charset.


Hope to get reponse on this one, because I do believe that hg is 
definitely worth a try, even though the client torotoisehg is still far 
from tortoise(svn|cvs). But the possibility to have full history on every 
machine is just great.

Regards,
Marko


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