--- a/hgweb.cgi
+++ b/hgweb.cgi
@@ -10,6 +10,13 @@ from mercurial.hgweb.hgweb_mod import hg
 from mercurial.hgweb.request import wsgiapplication
 import mercurial.hgweb.wsgicgi as wsgicgi
 
+# If you'd like to serve pages with UTF-8 instead of your default
+# locale charset, you can do so by uncommenting the following lines.
+# Note that this will cause your .hgrc files to be interpreted in
+# UTF-8 and all your repo files to be displayed using UTF-8.
+#
+# os.environ["HGENCODING"] = "UTF-8"
+
 def make_web_app():
     return hgweb("/path/to/repo", "repository name")