mercurial/templatekw.py

--- a/mercurial/templatekw.py	Wed Nov 24 15:38:52 2010 -0600
+++ b/mercurial/templatekw.py	Wed Nov 24 15:56:32 2010 -0600
@@ -148,7 +148,6 @@
 def showbranches(**args):
     branch = args['ctx'].branch()
     if branch != 'default':
-        branch = encoding.tolocal(branch)
         return showlist('branch', [branch], plural='branches', **args)
 
 def showchildren(**args):