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Hi, Thanks for your reply and excellent explanation! Regards, Sean "Tony Hoyle" <tmh at nodomain.org> wrote in message news:b0tsns$m3n$1 at sisko.nodomain.org... > Sean Choi wrote: > > > <<<<<<< abc.txt > > my changes======= > > cvs source changes>>>>>>>cvs version > > It's saying that you have a nonterminated line at the end of your file, so > it's reflecting that accurately in the two versions. It's a choice between > accurate&ugly and innacurate&pretty - cvs has historically gone for the > 'accurate' version. > > > 2. unicode file > > I find that after updating and checking out an unicode file, the > > unicode file is corrupted. > > Besides there are two bytes "FFFE" at the beginning of the file as > > unicode header in windows, two more bytes "FFEE" is added to the unicode > > file. > > > Unicode has FEFF or FFFE depending on the endianness of the file (not FFEE - > if any software is adding this then it is broken). > > cvsnt internally converts this to UTF8, which has a marker of EFBBBF. This > is what you'll see if you forget to mark the file with '-ku', as it'll > checkout as UFT8 by default. > > *however* your problem is you are trying to use unicode with Unix CVS - you > cannot use unicode with the cvshome.org version. Your only option (apart > from using cvsnt on the server side) is to make the files as binary. > > Tony >