visual source safe is not comparing properly, it is showing some dots

Question

One of my file is showing dots while comparing and some special character which is unreadable.(visual source safe 6.0 build 9848)

following is the extract

Orignal was

f f fg

but it is showing

1 Change: ÿþf To: ÿþf 2 Ins: 3 Ins:

Answer 1

I am going to suggest to skip using this visual source safe feature. and just do compare and merge manually using a third party application like winmerge. you will save yourself a lot of headache

http://winmerge.org/?lang=en