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check-code: build translation table for repquote in global for efficiency

Rebuilding translation table (256 size) at each repquote() invocations
is redundant.

For example, this patch decreases user time of command invocation
below from 18.297s to 13.445s (about -27%) on a Linux box. This
command is main part of test-check-code.t.

    hg locate | xargs python contrib/check-code.py --warnings --per-file=0

This patch adds "_repquote" prefix to functions and variables factored
out from repquote() to avoid conflict of name in the future.

Mercurial's documentation is kept in reStructuredText format, which is
a simple plain text format that's easy to read and edit:

  http://docutils.sourceforge.net/rst.html

It's also convertible to a variety of other formats including standard
UNIX man page format and HTML. You'll need to install Docutils:

  http://docutils.sourceforge.net/

Use the Makefile in this directory to generate the man and HTML pages.