Sourcetree white spaces between every letter

[Maayan Balasy]

in some files in my project, white spaces are added everywhere in the diff preview.

I suspect it breaks my commits.

Someone has a clue on how to fix it?

[Mike Corsaro · Accepted solution]

Hello! This is probably due to a text-encoding error (note the small 'CR' characters -- those are depreciated mac OS classic line-endings).

Could you check the file encoding and line-ending settings used for those files?

Additionally, if you run `git diff FILE_NAME` in the terminal does the result also look like that for the file?

[Maayan Balasy]

The bad files encoding was UCS-2 LE BOM in contrast to all other files encoding which is UTF-8 BOM.

changing the encoding didn't help.

when I run "git diff FILE_NAME" after changing the file encoding I see a lot of gibberish letters in red (basicaly the entire file) and afterwards the entire file, now readable, in green letters.

[Maayan Balasy]

eventually, the solution was to change the encoding of the files to utf-8.

Thanks! :)