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<H1>Changing the encoding of a CVS repository location</H1>
<P>You can change encoding of an existing repository location. This encoding will
be used to translate file paths and commit messages from the client encoding
to the server encoding and vice versa. The encoding does not affect the contents
of file. You may use the editor encoding (available from the
<a class="command-link" href='javascript:executeCommand("org.eclipse.ui.window.preferences(preferencePageId=org.eclipse.ui.preferencePages.ContentTypes)")'>
<img src="PLUGINS_ROOT/org.eclipse.help/command_link.png" alt="command link">
<strong>General &gt; Content Types</strong></a> preference page)
or resource encodings (available from the <strong>Properties&nbsp;&gt;&nbsp;Resource</strong>
page of resources) to configure the Workbench to use the proper file encodings.</p>
<P>To change the server encoding of a CVS repository location: </p>
<ol>
<li>Switch to the
<a class="command-link" href='javascript:executeCommand("org.eclipse.ui.perspectives.showPerspective(org.eclipse.ui.perspectives.showPerspective.perspectiveId=org.eclipse.team.cvs.ui.cvsPerspective)")'>
<img src="PLUGINS_ROOT/org.eclipse.help/command_link.png" alt="command link">
CVS Repository Exploring</a> perspective or add the
<a class="command-link" href='javascript:executeCommand("org.eclipse.ui.views.showView(org.eclipse.ui.views.showView.viewId=org.eclipse.team.ccvs.ui.RepositoriesView)")'>
<img src="PLUGINS_ROOT/org.eclipse.help/command_link.png" alt="command link">
CVS Repositories</a> view to the current perspective.</li>
<li>In the CVS Repositories view, select the repository location whose properties
you want to change.</li>
<li>Select <b>Properties</b> from the pop-up menu. The properties dialog will
open.</li>
<li>Select the <strong>Server Encoding</strong> tab.</li>
<li>Choose to set the encoding and either choose or type in the desired encoding.</li>
<li>Click <b>OK</b> to change the properties.</li>
</ol>
<p><img border="0" src="../images/ngrelc.png" alt="Related concepts" ><br>
<a href="../concepts/concepts-26.htm">Team programming with CVS</a><br>
<a href="../concepts/concepts-27c.htm">CVS Repositories</a>
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<p><img border="0" src="../images/ngrelt.png" alt="Related tasks" ><br>
<a href="tasks-92.htm">Creating a CVS repository location</a></p>
<p><img border="0" src="../images/ngrelr.png" alt="Related references" ><br>
<a href="../reference/ref-47.htm">CVS</a><br>
<a href="../reference/ref-32.htm">CVS Repositories view</a>
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