Can CVS process 16 bin characters?

[codeguy]

I have an application (Windows) which writes XML in 16 bit characters
(Unicode?).  I have several of the files under CVS source control.  CVS
sees the files as binary and does the obvious wrong thing with them.

Is CVS 16 bit aware and is there something I can do to change it to
handle these unicode files as text ...or should I just take my lumps or
whatever?

It's not the end of the world.  The files are archived properly.  I just
don't like it taking up all that space...