Please see http://bitbucket.org/tortoisehg/stable/issue/672/shell-extension-unicode-support for more context.
I am working to add support for unicode filenames to the shell extension. Out of the box, THG currently uses the non-unicode api calls in the shell extension. This works because on windows hg uses the same non-unicode api calls, and because of it's built on hg, hgtk also ends up using the non-unicode api calls. The fixutf8 hg extension wraps all of the disk io calls with their unicode equivalent in order add support for unicode filenames on windows. With the extension enabled, both hg and hgtk work properly with unicode filenames, however the shell extension does not. The plan is to have the TortoiseHg RPC server pass the value of mercurial._encoding to tortoisehg via the thgstatus file, so that the shell extension knows how to read both the thgstatus and dirstate files. The one issue left to sort out is more of an issue of style. Currently std::string is used throughout the shell extension for storing filenames and paths. We could switch to std:wstring for all paths, or we should do an #ifdef UNICODE and make it so that the shell extension could be compiled in either unicode or non-unicode. I was originally in favor of the #ifdef approach, but there wouldn't be any advantage to compiling compiling to non-unicode, since Windows uses only unicode under the hood, so when we get filenames from windows, the filename gets converted to non-unicode, and then when we call the non-unicode version of CreateProcess to spawn hgtk windows automatically converts the command-line we pass in to unicode. Additionally, it effectively creates two versions of the shell extension that would need to be supported. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Tortoisehg-develop mailing list Tortoisehg-develop@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tortoisehg-develop
