Re: Consequences for use of hg for other applications than SCM was Re: German umlauts in file names

[Marko Käning]

Hi Matt,

yes, my mail client is obviously not properly configured. I am sorry for that. Did not think about that. (You see that's my crux here...) ;)

> Neither of those will have any effect: Mercurial does not encode
> filenames. What comes out is the same as what goes in.
> 
> You either need to set your Windows machine to use UTF-8 or set your
> Linux machine to use something roughly cp850-compatible like Latin1.

So, you want to tell me that TortoiseSVN sets Windows' codepage actually to UTF-8 when it pulls all the files from my server?
Is that how TSVN is able to do what I want?
How can I find out, what kind of coding the Windows Explorer actually uses?

So, then the next question. How do I teach mercurial to use UTF-8 under Windows?

Then I could give it a try...

I apologize for not being able to fully grab the complexity of this issue.

Don't want to appear just demanding. It's just a pain to not to get it right here...

Sorry,
Marko