Test character encoding $ hg init t $ cd t we need a repo with some legacy latin-1 changesets $ hg unbundle $TESTDIR/legacy-encoding.hg adding changesets adding manifests adding file changes added 2 changesets with 2 changes to 1 files (run 'hg update' to get a working copy) $ hg co 1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved $ python << EOF > f = file('latin-1', 'w'); f.write("latin-1 e' encoded: \xe9"); f.close() > f = file('utf-8', 'w'); f.write("utf-8 e' encoded: \xc3\xa9"); f.close() > f = file('latin-1-tag', 'w'); f.write("\xe9"); f.close() > EOF should fail with encoding error $ echo "plain old ascii" > a $ hg st M a ? latin-1 ? latin-1-tag ? utf-8 $ HGENCODING=ascii hg ci -l latin-1 transaction abort! rollback completed abort: decoding near ' encoded: \xe9': 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe9 in position 20: ordinal not in range(128)! (esc) [255] these should work $ echo "latin-1" > a $ HGENCODING=latin-1 hg ci -l latin-1 $ echo "utf-8" > a $ HGENCODING=utf-8 hg ci -l utf-8 $ HGENCODING=latin-1 hg tag `cat latin-1-tag` $ HGENCODING=latin-1 hg branch `cat latin-1-tag` marked working directory as branch \xe9 (esc) $ HGENCODING=latin-1 hg ci -m 'latin1 branch' $ rm .hg/branch hg log (ascii) $ hg --encoding ascii log changeset: 5:093c6077d1c8 branch: ? tag: tip user: test date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 summary: latin1 branch changeset: 4:94db611b4196 user: test date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 summary: Added tag ? for changeset ca661e7520de changeset: 3:ca661e7520de tag: ? user: test date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 summary: utf-8 e' encoded: ? changeset: 2:650c6f3d55dd user: test date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 summary: latin-1 e' encoded: ? changeset: 1:0e5b7e3f9c4a user: test date: Mon Jan 12 13:46:40 1970 +0000 summary: koi8-r: ????? = u'\u0440\u0442\u0443\u0442\u044c' changeset: 0:1e78a93102a3 user: test date: Mon Jan 12 13:46:40 1970 +0000 summary: latin-1 e': ? = u'\xe9' hg log (latin-1) $ hg --encoding latin-1 log changeset: 5:093c6077d1c8 branch: \xe9 (esc) tag: tip user: test date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 summary: latin1 branch changeset: 4:94db611b4196 user: test date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 summary: Added tag \xe9 for changeset ca661e7520de (esc) changeset: 3:ca661e7520de tag: \xe9 (esc) user: test date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 summary: utf-8 e' encoded: \xe9 (esc) changeset: 2:650c6f3d55dd user: test date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 summary: latin-1 e' encoded: \xe9 (esc) changeset: 1:0e5b7e3f9c4a user: test date: Mon Jan 12 13:46:40 1970 +0000 summary: koi8-r: \xd2\xd4\xd5\xd4\xd8 = u'\\u0440\\u0442\\u0443\\u0442\\u044c' (esc) changeset: 0:1e78a93102a3 user: test date: Mon Jan 12 13:46:40 1970 +0000 summary: latin-1 e': \xe9 = u'\\xe9' (esc) hg log (utf-8) $ hg --encoding utf-8 log changeset: 5:093c6077d1c8 branch: \xc3\xa9 (esc) tag: tip user: test date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 summary: latin1 branch changeset: 4:94db611b4196 user: test date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 summary: Added tag \xc3\xa9 for changeset ca661e7520de (esc) changeset: 3:ca661e7520de tag: \xc3\xa9 (esc) user: test date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 summary: utf-8 e' encoded: \xc3\xa9 (esc) changeset: 2:650c6f3d55dd user: test date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 summary: latin-1 e' encoded: \xc3\xa9 (esc) changeset: 1:0e5b7e3f9c4a user: test date: Mon Jan 12 13:46:40 1970 +0000 summary: koi8-r: \xc3\x92\xc3\x94\xc3\x95\xc3\x94\xc3\x98 = u'\\u0440\\u0442\\u0443\\u0442\\u044c' (esc) changeset: 0:1e78a93102a3 user: test date: Mon Jan 12 13:46:40 1970 +0000 summary: latin-1 e': \xc3\xa9 = u'\\xe9' (esc) hg tags (ascii) $ HGENCODING=ascii hg tags tip 5:093c6077d1c8 ? 3:ca661e7520de hg tags (latin-1) $ HGENCODING=latin-1 hg tags tip 5:093c6077d1c8 \xe9 3:ca661e7520de (esc) hg tags (utf-8) $ HGENCODING=utf-8 hg tags tip 5:093c6077d1c8 \xc3\xa9 3:ca661e7520de (esc) hg branches (ascii) $ HGENCODING=ascii hg branches ? 5:093c6077d1c8 default 4:94db611b4196 (inactive) hg branches (latin-1) $ HGENCODING=latin-1 hg branches \xe9 5:093c6077d1c8 (esc) default 4:94db611b4196 (inactive) hg branches (utf-8) $ HGENCODING=utf-8 hg branches \xc3\xa9 5:093c6077d1c8 (esc) default 4:94db611b4196 (inactive) $ echo '[ui]' >> .hg/hgrc $ echo 'fallbackencoding = koi8-r' >> .hg/hgrc hg log (utf-8) $ HGENCODING=utf-8 hg log changeset: 5:093c6077d1c8 branch: \xc3\xa9 (esc) tag: tip user: test date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 summary: latin1 branch changeset: 4:94db611b4196 user: test date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 summary: Added tag \xc3\xa9 for changeset ca661e7520de (esc) changeset: 3:ca661e7520de tag: \xc3\xa9 (esc) user: test date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 summary: utf-8 e' encoded: \xc3\xa9 (esc) changeset: 2:650c6f3d55dd user: test date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 summary: latin-1 e' encoded: \xc3\xa9 (esc) changeset: 1:0e5b7e3f9c4a user: test date: Mon Jan 12 13:46:40 1970 +0000 summary: koi8-r: \xd1\x80\xd1\x82\xd1\x83\xd1\x82\xd1\x8c = u'\\u0440\\u0442\\u0443\\u0442\\u044c' (esc) changeset: 0:1e78a93102a3 user: test date: Mon Jan 12 13:46:40 1970 +0000 summary: latin-1 e': \xd0\x98 = u'\\xe9' (esc) hg log (dolphin) $ HGENCODING=dolphin hg log abort: unknown encoding: dolphin, please check your locale settings [255] $ HGENCODING=ascii hg branch `cat latin-1-tag` abort: decoding near '\xe9': 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe9 in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)! (esc) [255] $ cp latin-1-tag .hg/branch $ HGENCODING=latin-1 hg ci -m 'auto-promote legacy name' Test roundtrip encoding of lookup tables when not using UTF-8 (issue2763) $ HGENCODING=latin-1 hg up `cat latin-1-tag` 0 files updated, 0 files merged, 1 files removed, 0 files unresolved