requires: re-use vfs.tryread for simplicity
Avoids calling `set` twice or having to re-raise an exception and implements the routine with a single return expression.
#!/bin/sh
HGENCODING=UTF-8
export HGENCODING
echo ".. -*- coding: utf-8 -*-" > gendoc.txt
echo "" >> gendoc.txt
LANGUAGE=$1 "$PYTHON" "$TESTDIR/../doc/gendoc.py" >> gendoc.txt 2> /dev/null || exit
echo "checking for parse errors"
"$PYTHON" "$TESTDIR/../doc/docchecker" gendoc.txt
"$PYTHON" "$TESTDIR/../doc/runrst" html gendoc.txt /dev/null