Rev 4426: NEWS for fixing bug #382709 in http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~jameinel/bzr/1.16-external_diff_encoded-382709

[John Arbash Meinel]

At http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~jameinel/bzr/1.16-external_diff_encoded-382709

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revno: 4426
revision-id: john at arbash-meinel.com-20090729213813-30uflf10ba23rced
parent: john at arbash-meinel.com-20090729213505-tkqsvy1zfpocu75w
committer: John Arbash Meinel <john at arbash-meinel.com>
branch nick: 1.16-external_diff_encoded-382709
timestamp: Wed 2009-07-29 16:38:13 -0500
message:
  NEWS for fixing bug #382709
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   to reading and then rewriting the whole file, such as TahoeLAFS.  (This
   fallback may be slow for some access patterns.)  (Nils Durner, #294709)
 
+* Encode the paths in ``mbcs`` encoding on Windows when spawning an
+  external diff client. This at least allows supporting filenames that are
+  not ascii, but are present in the current locale. Ideally we would be
+  able to pass the Unicode path, but that would be client dependent.
+  (John Arbash Meinel, #382709)
+
 * Fixed a NameError that occurs when merging or pulling from a URL that
   causes a redirection loop when bzr tries to read a URL as a bundle.
   (Andrew Bennetts, #400847)