diff -r 7c8f8b736365 -r 5fd7cc897542 mercurial/localrepo.py
--- a/mercurial/localrepo.py	Mon Jun 18 13:24:34 2007 -0500
+++ b/mercurial/localrepo.py	Mon Jun 18 13:24:34 2007 -0500
@@ -80,10 +80,6 @@
         except IOError:
             pass
 
-        fallback = self.ui.config('ui', 'fallbackencoding')
-        if fallback:
-            util._fallbackencoding = fallback
-
         self.tagscache = None
         self.branchcache = None
         self.nodetagscache = None