Is it possible to support non-english comments when using mercurial with hgsubversion?

Question

Now I am testing mercurial with the hgsubversion extension. Everything works fine except subversion comments: non-latin characters are displayed as "?" in HGWorkbench, and it encounters a python coding error while working with change sets, there are non-Latin characters in the comments. Is it possible to somehow correct this behavior, or is the bridge using Mercury Subversion not intended for use with non-English languages?

April 12, 2012 Patch

I checked the OS version - the error is displayed only in Windows. On Ubuntu, everything works fine and non-Latin comments are displayed correctly. It also seems that the problem is the HGWorkbench application: I copied the repository to Ubuntu, which correctly displays in Ubuntu on a Windows machine, and I see "?" instead of non-latin characters here.

Answer 1

Well, it seems that TortoiseHG is not intended to be used on Windows after all. A workaround for the encoding problem is to set the environment variable named "HGENCODING" with "UTF-8".