Hello: I've had the same trouble on a full sid system. I tried upgrading to current sid tortoisehg version (2.0.2-1) on a Squeeze system (with mercurial 1.8.1) and I have tortoisehg working correctly. So my suspicion is that something broke in either python-qt4 or qscintilla.
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