changelog: backed out changeset 1778770e1982

We want to avoid leaking UTF-8 to main body of code wherever possible.

mercurial/changelog.py

@@ -334,20 +334,12 b' class changelog(revlog.revlog):'
         (.*)            : comment (free text, ideally utf-8)
 
         changelog v0 doesn't use extra
-
-        Returns a 6-tuple consisting of the following:
-          - manifest node (binary)
-          - user (binary)
-          - (time, timezone) 2-tuple of a float and int offset
-          - list of files modified by the cset
-          - commit message / description (binary)
-          - dict of extra entries
         """
         text = self.revision(node)
         if not text:
             return nullid, "", (0, 0), [], "", _defaultextra
         last = text.index("\n\n")
-        desc = text[last + 2:]
+        desc = encoding.tolocal(text[last + 2:])
         l = text[:last].split('\n')
         manifest = bin(l[0])
         user = l[1]

mercurial/context.py

@@ -554,7 +554,7 b' class changectx(basectx):'
     def files(self):
         return self._changeset[3]
     def description(self):
-        return encoding.tolocal(self._changeset[4])
+        return self._changeset[4]
     def branch(self):
         return encoding.tolocal(self._changeset[5].get("branch"))
     def closesbranch(self):