diff --git a/app/helpers/repositories_helper.rb b/app/helpers/repositories_helper.rb
index 23899a88..c0d5909c 100644
--- a/app/helpers/repositories_helper.rb
+++ b/app/helpers/repositories_helper.rb
@@ -205,7 +205,11 @@ module RepositoriesHelper
   
   def mercurial_field_tags(form, repository)
       content_tag('p', form.text_field(:url, :label => :label_mercurial_path, :size => 60, :required => true, :disabled => (repository && !repository.root_url.blank?)) +
-                  '<br />local repository (e.g. /hgrepo, c:\hgrepo)' )
+                  '<br />local repository (e.g. /hgrepo, c:\hgrepo)' ) +
+      content_tag('p', form.select(
+                                   :path_encoding, [nil] + Setting::ENCODINGS,
+                                   :label => 'Path encoding') +
+                  '<br />Default: UTF-8')
   end
 
   def git_field_tags(form, repository)