WinMerge tells my files are binary files even when they are not?
There is one or more zero-bytes in your file(s). If WinMerge finds zero-bytes from files, it considers the files to be binary files. You can try to remove those zero-bytes from files. Alternatively, you may open the files with the DisplayBinaryFiles plugin. This plugin allows viewing binary files, but not editing them. If you have a very recent version of WinMerge (2.6.0 and newer), you may use the new EditBinaryFiles plugin, which does allow editing binary files (using an escape scheme for representing non-printable characters).
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