uft8 character set -> "repository problem"

[Marko Kaening]

Hi,

we recently upgraded from SuSE 8.2 to 9.3 and do have a problem with the 
character set together with cvs now, since SuSE now uses utf8 as the 
standard character set. 

Files in our repository do contain sometimes umlauts. These will be 
handled okay on our clients, but if you look into the repository on the 
server itself they will look strange. Every umlaut gets displayed just as 
a question mark.

How does cvs handle these character set conversions? And how can I achieve
the same situation as before: both on client and server the same file 
names without weird character set problems??

Marko