It does help, thanks David! Seems it never bothered me enough to look into it.

Am 07.10.2013 um 16:54 schrieb David Avendasora:

> Hey all,
> 
> I just ran into this in one of my projects and thought I would post the fix 
> as I'm sure I'm not the only one to have run into this.
> 
> Git thinks that UTF-16 encoded text files are binary and won't automatically 
> merge non-conflicting changes, which makes working on a D2W / localized 
> project a real pain.
> 
> The fix is simple:
> 
> Create a .gitattributes file in the root of your project (probably right next 
> to .gitignore - yes, alphabetically)   with the following two lines:
> 
> [attr]utf16 diff merge -crlf
> *.strings utf16
> 
> Git will now automatically merge non-conflicting changes without any 
> complaints!
> 
> You can also add those settings to your global git settings, but by putting 
> it in the root of your project, anyone else that works on the project will 
> immediately get the benefits too.
> 
> Hope this helps someone besides future me. I'm sure I'll be googling this 
> issue again in 6 months.
> 
> (Hi future Dave! You are looking mighty handsome, I must say.)
> 
> Dave
> 
> 
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