--- a/mercurial/store.py	Mon Jan 06 14:07:43 2025 -0500
+++ b/mercurial/store.py	Mon Jan 06 14:15:40 2025 -0500
@@ -125,7 +125,7 @@
 
     these characters will be escaped by encodefunctions
     """
-    winreserved = [ord(x) for x in u'\\:*?"<>|']
+    winreserved = [ord(x) for x in '\\:*?"<>|']
     for x in range(32):
         yield x
     for x in range(126, 256):