Mercurial commit messages and log, what encoding is supported, does Hg care at all?
I tried doing a simple commit through my wrapper library for Mercurial, using the simple text of Unicode:æøåÆØÅ
as my commit message. This is written to a text file and given to Mercurial with the appropriate parameter:
hg commit --logfile FILE
If I subsequently look at the repository with TortoiseH开发者_如何转开发g, the characters are reproduced correctly. On the Console, they are mangled:
[C:\Temp] :hg log changeset: 0:6a0911410128 tag: tip user: Lasse V. Karlsen date: Wed Dec 01 21:48:54 2010 +0100 summary: Unicode:æøåÆØÅ
If I redirect the output of hg log
to a file, and open it up, æøåÆØÅ
is reproduced correctly.
So, my question is this:
- Can I ask
hg
to write the log to a file directly, or do I have to redirect standard output? - Will this cause problems with python encoding for console, ie. some characters will make
hg
crash instead of just mangling the output? - Is there a known supported encoding for the commit messages that I should adhere to?
Or is it just this simple:
- Mercurial doesn't care, it takes the contents of the file I give it, whatever the content, and stores that as the commit message. When producing the log, it will just dump it back to the console falling prey to whatever limitations the Python console output library has in this regard?
The following may not solve the issue but can help debug it.
Check out : https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/EncodingStrategy
If I redirect the output of hg log to a file, and open it up, æøåÆØÅ is reproduced correctly.
So at least mercurial is storing the commit information correctly. It is only the output that is messed up.
Some work happening along these lines but not related to this
- http://bitbucket.org/mg/hg-unicode
[Edit: Missed the fact that you are on windows]
See the last paragraph on how to deal with character set compatibility problems: https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/CharacterEncodingOnWindows
It says:
- set your console code page to match your system code page
- override Mercurial's encoding with an environment variable
- Setting HGENCODING will override the detected system character set.
- override Mercurial's encoding with a command-line option
- Using the global --encoding option will allow you to set your preferred encoding on each command.
- use GUI-based tools to interact with Mercurial
- This also eliminates the problem, by eliminating that pesky console entirely.
- use Linux/UNIX and UTF-8
- This makes Bill Gates cry.
If using git bash for hg
commands, you can set the Character set to ISO-8859-1
to fix that annoying chars in your hg log.
To do so, go to git bash options by clicking on the icon on the top left of the git bash
* select options
* select Text
* At the bottom set the Character set to ISO-8859-1
I know it hurts to do so, but it works.
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