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** [tickets:#8350] non-unicode filenames in hg**
**Status:** in-progress
**Milestone:** unreleased
**Created:** Tue Feb 11, 2020 10:54 PM UTC by Dave Brondsema
**Last Updated:** Tue Feb 11, 2020 10:54 PM UTC
**Owner:** Dave Brondsema
with a non-unicode filename this error is threown
- **status**: in-progress --> review
- **Comment**:
fixed on db/8350 This illustrates how it works to handle a name with a
different encoding:
```
>>> 'data/\xCA\xEE\xEF\xE8\xFF scene.txt'.decode('utf-8')
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 1, in
File
