[Python-apps-team] Bug#500140: closed by Serafeim Zanikolas <serzan at hellug.gr> (Re: Bug#500140: mercurial: does not accept anything other than ascii7 in ~/.hgrc)

[Francesco Potorti`]

>With non-ascii characters you're expected to set the appropriate encoding, in
>your locale, via the environment variable HGENCODING, or via the --encoding
>switch -- see hg(1).

Thank you.

Sorry for not spotting this, but before submitting I looked for
documentation on this issue and even asked around...