i18n: encode output in user's local encoding

This makes the translated output obey the HGENCODING environment
variable or the preferred encoding as set by the LANG or LC_ALL
environment variables.

Python 2.4 has a lgettext method which is similar, except that it
doesn't know about HGENCODING or the settings in .hgrc.

mercurial/i18n.py

@@ -1,26 +1,51 b''
 """
 i18n.py - internationalization support for mercurial
 
 Copyright 2005, 2006 Matt Mackall <[e-mail]>
 
 This software may be used and distributed according to the terms
 of the GNU General Public License, incorporated herein by reference.
 """
 
 import gettext, sys, os
 
 # modelled after templater.templatepath:
 if hasattr(sys, 'frozen'):
     module = sys.executable
 else:
     module = __file__
 
 base = os.path.dirname(module)
 for dir in ('.', '..'):
     localedir = os.path.normpath(os.path.join(base, dir, 'locale'))
     if os.path.isdir(localedir):
         break
 
 t = gettext.translation('hg', localedir, fallback=True)
-gettext = t.gettext
+
+def gettext(message):
+    """Translate message.
+
+    The message is looked up in the catalog to get a Unicode string,
+    which is encoded in the local encoding before being returned.
+
+    Important: message is restricted to characters in the encoding
+    given by sys.getdefaultencoding() which is most likely 'ascii'.
+    """
+    # If message is None, t.ugettext will return u'None' as the
+    # translation whereas our callers expect us to return None.
+    if message is None:
+        return message
+
+    # We cannot just run the text through util.tolocal since that
+    # leads to infinite recursion when util._encoding is invalid.
+    try:
+        u = t.ugettext(message)
+        return u.encode(util._encoding, "replace")
+    except LookupError:
+        return message
+
 _ = gettext
+
+# Moved after _ because of circular import.
+import util