Mercurial on Mac - UTF-8 locale problems

The Eigen project recently switched to Mercurial. After installing the Macports version of mercurial, it wouldn't work apparently due to locale problems. The solution from this blog post worked for me :

export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
export LANG=en_US.UTF-8

Thanks Lothar. It's really good when the first hit from a google search is spot on. Now I should get back to my own code and build problems.