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Hi, I have a small problem using CVSNT regarding non-ascii characters. I am using version 2.0.58d on a Linux box as the server and until recently I have been using 2.0.51d (the one that comes with WinCVS) on a Windows box as the client. Some of the source code I work with uses non-ascii characters (such as the copyright symbol) stored in the default Windows-1252 character encoding (eg, not Unicode). This has been working fine until I upgraded my client to 2.5.03. Now if I do an update using the -p option to pipe to the standard out then all of the non-ascii characters disappear in the output. It doesn't seem to have this problem if I do a regular update or checkout. This is a nuisance because WinCVS uses the -p option to do an external diff, so all of the non-ascii characters appear as differences. I will probably just downgrade back to the old version, but I was just wondering if this is a known problem or if I'm doing something wrong? Thanks for your help - Neil