#!/usr/bin/env python
import sys
data = open(sys.argv[-1]).read()
ascii = data.decode('utf-16').encode('ascii', 'replace')
sys.stdout.write(ascii)
Shell:
$ echo "*.strings diff=xcode_strings" >> .gitattributes $ git config diff.xcode_strings.textconv /path/to/utf16_to_ascii.py
