German umlauts in file names

Matt Mackall mpm at selenic.com
Tue Jun 17 10:47:24 CDT 2008


On Tue, 2008-06-17 at 15:05 +0200, Lars Kuhtz wrote:
> On Tuesday 17 June 2008 14:44, Jens.Wulf at sew-eurodrive.de wrote:
> > > is there really no one out there who ever came across German
> > > umlauts in file names and commit comments?
> >
> > I have umlauts in commit comments and they are displayed correctly in hg vi
> > and hgtk log/tortoisehg, but not on the command line. However, I didn't do
> > anything except standard hg installs (recently it has been tortoisehg, but
> > I did use the other installer, too). So I don't know how to help you...
> 
> Commit messages with umlauts do not work here as well:

You don't have your locale set correctly.

> I just did a quick test and it seems that filenames with umlauts work 
> correctly here:

We don't attempt to do anything with filename encoding as filename
encoding generally has to agree file content encoding (eg Makefile) and
we definitely don't mess with content encoding.

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