Mercurial with non-ascii usernames

[John W. Eaton]

On 27-Sep-2008, Thomas Weber wrote:

| On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 09:12:18PM +0200, Søren Hauberg wrote:
| > fre, 26 09 2008 kl. 21:00 +0200, skrev Thomas Weber:
| > > as some people seem to have trouble with the username in .hgrc:
| > > 
| > > $ hg log | grep user
| > > user:        Søren Hauberg <soren at hauberg.org>
| > 
| > Just for the record: I'm so used to having a weird name, that I really
| > don't mind being called 'Soren' (actually, most of the Americans I've
| > met call me "Sean" as my name is kinda pronounced like that).
| 
| The main problem with non-ASCII characters: how do I find them on my
| keyboard layout? The above "Søren" was copy/pasted.

If you use Emacs:

  M-x set-input-method latin-1-postfix

then type

  o /

and you should see it combine into the single character ø.  After
typing characters that can be accented or altered, the minibuffer will
display the set of characters you can type to generate the accented or
altered character.

jwe