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Torkild Ulvøy Resheim wrote: > We're using an "ancient" programming language (Visual DataFlex) which is still > in the DOS era so we need to code our files using Cp850 in order to get our > national characters (æ/ø/å) correct. Lately we've written our own development > tools for this language using Eclipse. Now when we compare files using the > visual diff, we get differences wherever these national characters are > involved. Since the Eclipse projects are set to use Cp850 my idea was to > force the CVS server to use the same so that we don't get any differences. The CVS server in this case isn't causing the differences in the files - it doesn't care about codepages unless you tell it (and if you're using eclipse this isn't an option as it doesn't support them). It sounds more like a bug in your visual diff program. Tony