encoding: use getutf8char in toutf8b
This correctly avoids the ambiguity of U+FFFD already present in the
input and similar confusion by working a character at a time.
hg debuginstall
$ hg debuginstall
checking encoding (ascii)...
checking Python executable (*) (glob)
checking Python version (2.*) (glob)
checking Python lib (*lib*)... (glob)
checking installed modules (*mercurial)... (glob)
checking templates (*mercurial?templates)... (glob)
checking commit editor...
checking username...
no problems detected
hg debuginstall with no username
$ HGUSER= hg debuginstall
checking encoding (ascii)...
checking Python executable (*) (glob)
checking Python version (2.*) (glob)
checking Python lib (*lib*)... (glob)
checking installed modules (*mercurial)... (glob)
checking templates (*mercurial?templates)... (glob)
checking commit editor...
checking username...
no username supplied
(specify a username in your configuration file)
1 problems detected, please check your install!
[1]
path variables are expanded (~ is the same as $TESTTMP)
$ mkdir tools
$ touch tools/testeditor.exe
#if execbit
$ chmod 755 tools/testeditor.exe
#endif
$ hg debuginstall --config ui.editor=~/tools/testeditor.exe
checking encoding (ascii)...
checking Python executable (*) (glob)
checking Python version (*) (glob)
checking Python lib (*lib*)... (glob)
checking installed modules (*mercurial)... (glob)
checking templates (*mercurial?templates)... (glob)
checking commit editor...
checking username...
no problems detected