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

[Alexander Belchenko]

Jens.Wulf at sew-eurodrive.de пишет:
>> I worked now for 4 years with svn and NEVER had a problem 
>> with all my German transcodings!
> Let a user with an 8-bit-coding which does NOT include the non-ASCII-characters you have used (umlauts) work with your repo. Umlauts can't be transcoded on his system. What does SVN do now?

Windows filesystem uses unicode for saving filenames.
So if svn properly using unicode Win32 API there is absolutely no problems.

> 
> The help of the system which I'm forced to work with now lists some codepages which might (don't know, just guessing) not contain umlauts:
> 
> 437 USA 
> 852 Slawisch (Latein II) 
> 855 Kyrillisch (Russisch) 
> 860 Portugiesisch 
> 861 Isländisch 
> 863 Französisch (Kanada) 
> 865 Nordisch 
> 866 Russisch 

^-- Cyrillic or Russian. Not Russisch, please.

> 869 Modernes Griechisch