bug#4417: 23.1.50; vc-hg is broken in non-English locales

[Dan Nicolaescu]

Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> writes:

  > Setting LANG to C works around the problems.  For the reference, this is
  > my mercurial version:
  > 
  > ,----
  > | % hg --version
  > | Mercurial Distributed SCM (version 1.3.1)
  > `----

I have:
hg --version
Mercurial Distributed SCM (version 1.3)

  > When opening a file in a mercurial-controlled directory, the modeline
  > shows "Hg-0" instead of the revision number in my de_DE.UTF-8 locale.
  > Moreover, after pressing "C-x v l", the *vc-change-log* buffer is
  > unfontified, and standard keys (d, f) do not work there, because hg's
  > output is in German:
  > 
  > ,----
  > | Änderung:        1587:1cdfa7c5503e
  > | Vorgänger:       1585:ef75fa728cca
  > | Nutzer:          Daniel Burrows <dburrows@debian.org>
  > | Datum:           Sun Jul 20 12:31:09 2008 -0700
  > | Zusammenfassung: Document how aptitude handles double-quotes.
  > `----

I can't reproduce this, doing:

env LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 hg log

does not print German headings.

so it looks like this might be a bug in 1.3.1 or maybe in your
installation.  Can you please check?