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23.1.50; vc-hg is broken in non-English locales

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Message #21 received at 4417 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Sven Joachim <svenjoac <at> gmx.de>
To: Dan Nicolaescu <dann <at> ics.uci.edu>
Cc: 4417 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#4417: 23.1.50; vc-hg is broken in non-English locales
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2009 18:52:02 +0100

On 2009-12-14 18:12 +0100, Dan Nicolaescu wrote:

> The "Hg-0" problem happens because vc-hg parses the "hg log" output so
> that it can get the version number to display in the modeline (in
> `vc-hg-working-revision').
> I'll check in a fix shortly.

Thanks.

> For the C-x v l problem, would it be acceptable for vc-hg to force the
> language to be C?  If not, then someone would have to write regexps that
> match the  "hg log" entries in any language.

That latter approach might not scale too well, who knows in what
languages mercurial gets translated.  Forcing a C locale for hg's output
would be fine with me.

Sven

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