Git messed up my files, showing chinese characters in some places

Question

disclaimer: By Git, I mean \'I\' messed up.

Earlier, I wanted git-gui to show me the diff for which it thinks are binary files.

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Answer 1

Here's a (bad) power-shell script that will fix files in this state. It will replace the sequence "0x0D 0x00 0x0D 0x0A" with "0x0D 0x00 0x0A" then overwrite the file it was given.

Afterwards you should probably re-save the file in something like UTF-8.

function Fix-Encoding
{
    Param(
        [String]$file
    )
    $f = get-item $file;
    $bytes = [System.IO.File]::ReadAllBytes($f.fullname);
    $output = new-object "System.Collections.Generic.List[System.Byte]"
    $output.Capacity = $bytes.Length

    for ($i = 0; $i -lt $bytes.Length; $i++)
    { 
        if ($i -lt $bytes.Length + 3)
        {
            if ($bytes[$i] -eq 0x0D -and $bytes[$i+1] -eq 0x00 -and $bytes[$i+2] -eq 0x0D -and $bytes[$i+3] -eq 0x0A) 
            {
                $output.Add(0x0D);
                $output.Add(0x00);
                $output.Add(0x0A);
                $i += 3
            }
            else {
                $output.Add($bytes[$i]);
            }
        }
     }
    [System.IO.File]::WriteAllBytes($f.fullname, $output)
}