i18n: encode output in user's local encoding This makes the translated output obey the HGENCODING environment variable or the preferred encoding as set by the LANG or LC_ALL environment variables. Python 2.4 has a lgettext method which is similar, except that it doesn't know about HGENCODING or the settings in .hgrc.

#!/bin/sh

mkdir a
cd a
hg init
echo 123 > a
hg add a
hg commit -m "a" -u a -d "1000000 0"

cd ..
mkdir b
cd b
hg init
echo 321 > b
hg add b
hg commit -m "b" -u b -d "1000000 0"

hg pull ../a
hg pull -f ../a
hg heads