When a mercurial repository does not use utf-8 for encoding author
strings and commit messages the "-e <encoding>" command line option
can be used to force fast-export to convert incoming meta data from
-<encoding> to utf-8.
+<encoding> to utf-8. This encoding option is also applied to file names.
+
+In some locales Mercurial uses different encodings for commit messages
+and file names. In that case, you can use "--fe <encoding>" command line
+option which overrides the -e option for file names.
As mercurial appears to be much less picky about the syntax of the
author information than git, an author mapping file can be given to