win32: fix encoding handling for registry strings (issue3467)
This stopped handling non-ASCII strings in 1.8
--- a/mercurial/win32.py Wed May 16 17:02:30 2012 +0900
+++ b/mercurial/win32.py Mon May 21 16:32:49 2012 -0500
@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@
# This software may be used and distributed according to the terms of the
# GNU General Public License version 2 or any later version.
-import encoding
import ctypes, errno, os, struct, subprocess, random
_kernel32 = ctypes.windll.kernel32
@@ -290,8 +289,8 @@
if res != _ERROR_SUCCESS:
continue
if type.value == _REG_SZ:
- # never let a Unicode string escape into the wild
- return encoding.tolocal(buf.value.encode('UTF-8'))
+ # string is in ANSI code page, aka local encoding
+ return buf.value
elif type.value == _REG_DWORD:
fmt = '<L'
s = ctypes.string_at(byref(buf), struct.calcsize(fmt))