[MERGE] better support of unicode paths on Windows

[Martin Pool]

2009/7/3 Alexander Belchenko <bialix at ukr.net>:
> Bzr has one latent bug related to create new .bzr directory inside unicode
> directory. The problem occurs when unicode path cannot be encoded in current
> user encoding, as pointed by INADA Naoki, see
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/tortoisebzr/+bug/335362/comments/41
>
> This is rare condition, but bug itself is very serious.
> Please, merge for 1.17.

Is it serious because it blocks people from using bzr in non-english
directories, or is it even worse than that?  If so, the news message
perhaps should say so.

-- 
Martin <http://launchpad.net/~mbp/>