Translations are optional: $ "$TESTDIR/hghave" gettext || exit 80 Test that translations are compiled and installed correctly. Default encoding in tests is "ascii" and the translation is encoded using the "replace" error handler: $ LANGUAGE=pt_BR hg tip abortado: N?o h? um reposit?rio do Mercurial aqui (.hg n?o encontrado)! [255] Using a more accomodating encoding: $ HGENCODING=UTF-8 LANGUAGE=pt_BR hg tip abortado: N\xc3\xa3o h\xc3\xa1 um reposit\xc3\xb3rio do Mercurial aqui (.hg n\xc3\xa3o encontrado)! (esc) [255] Different encoding: $ HGENCODING=Latin-1 LANGUAGE=pt_BR hg tip abortado: N\xe3o h\xe1 um reposit\xf3rio do Mercurial aqui (.hg n\xe3o encontrado)! (esc) [255]