hgweb.cgi

hgweb: report detected character set

Add comments on overriding charset to CGI scripts

#!/usr/bin/env python
#
# An example CGI script to use hgweb, edit as necessary

import cgitb, os, sys
cgitb.enable()

# sys.path.insert(0, "/path/to/python/lib") # if not a system-wide install
from mercurial.hgweb.hgweb_mod import hgweb
from mercurial.hgweb.request import wsgiapplication
import mercurial.hgweb.wsgicgi as wsgicgi

# If you'd like to serve pages with UTF-8 instead of your default
# locale charset, you can do so by uncommenting the following lines.
# Note that this will cause your .hgrc files to be interpreted in
# UTF-8 and all your repo files to be displayed using UTF-8.
#
# os.environ["HGENCODING"] = "UTF-8"

def make_web_app():
    return hgweb("/path/to/repo", "repository name")

wsgicgi.launch(wsgiapplication(make_web_app))