diff --git a/misc/scripts/black_format.sh b/misc/scripts/black_format.sh
index 04dfe32f606..f93e8cbc2a7 100755
--- a/misc/scripts/black_format.sh
+++ b/misc/scripts/black_format.sh
@@ -16,11 +16,9 @@ PY_FILES=$(find \( -path "./.git" \
 black -l 120 $PY_FILES
 
 git diff > patch.patch
-FILESIZE="$(stat -c%s patch.patch)"
-MAXSIZE=5
 
 # If no patch has been generated all is OK, clean up, and exit.
-if (( FILESIZE < MAXSIZE )); then
+if [ ! -s patch.patch ] ; then
     printf "Files in this commit comply with the black style rules.\n"
     rm -f patch.patch
     exit 0
diff --git a/misc/scripts/clang_format.sh b/misc/scripts/clang_format.sh
index 5131f7fe333..e686305dead 100755
--- a/misc/scripts/clang_format.sh
+++ b/misc/scripts/clang_format.sh
@@ -39,11 +39,9 @@ while IFS= read -rd '' f; do
 done
 
 git diff > patch.patch
-FILESIZE="$(stat -c%s patch.patch)"
-MAXSIZE=5
 
 # If no patch has been generated all is OK, clean up, and exit.
-if (( FILESIZE < MAXSIZE )); then
+if [ ! -s patch.patch ] ; then
     printf "Files in this commit comply with the clang-format style rules.\n"
     rm -f patch.patch
     exit 0
diff --git a/misc/scripts/file_format.sh b/misc/scripts/file_format.sh
index 30988e51c67..773999cf0c1 100755
--- a/misc/scripts/file_format.sh
+++ b/misc/scripts/file_format.sh
@@ -1,7 +1,13 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
 
 # This script ensures proper POSIX text file formatting and a few other things.
-# This is supplementary to clang-black-format.sh, but should be run before it.
+# This is supplementary to clang_format.sh and black_format.sh, but should be
+# run before them.
+
+# We need dos2unix and recode.
+if [ ! -x "$(command -v dos2unix)" -o ! -x "$(command -v recode)" ]; then
+    printf "Install 'dos2unix' and 'recode' to use this script.\n"
+fi
 
 set -uo pipefail
 IFS=$'\n\t'
@@ -29,22 +35,17 @@ while IFS= read -rd '' f; do
     recode UTF-8 "$f" 2> /dev/null
     # Ensures that files have LF line endings.
     dos2unix "$f" 2> /dev/null
-    # Ensures that files do not contain a BOM.
-    sed -i '1s/^\xEF\xBB\xBF//' "$f"
-    # Ensures that files end with newline characters.
-    tail -c1 < "$f" | read -r _ || echo >> "$f";
     # Remove trailing space characters.
-    sed -z -i 's/\x20\x0A/\x0A/g' "$f"
+    # -l option handles newlines conveniently and seems to also get rid of BOMs.
+    perl -i -ple 's/\s*$//g' "$f"
     # Remove the character sequence "== true" if it has a leading space.
-    sed -z -i 's/\x20== true//g' "$f"
+    perl -i -pe 's/\x20== true//g' "$f"
 done
 
 git diff > patch.patch
-FILESIZE="$(stat -c%s patch.patch)"
-MAXSIZE=5
 
 # If no patch has been generated all is OK, clean up, and exit.
-if (( FILESIZE < MAXSIZE )); then
+if [ ! -s patch.patch ] ; then
     printf "Files in this commit comply with the formatting rules.\n"
     rm -f patch.patch
     exit 0
diff --git a/platform/windows/godot.natvis b/platform/windows/godot.natvis
index 593557cc692..90f0b55d0a4 100644
--- a/platform/windows/godot.natvis
+++ b/platform/windows/godot.natvis
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 			</ArrayItems>
 		</Expand>
 	</Type>
-	
+
 	<Type Name="List&lt;*&gt;">
 		<Expand>
 			<Item Name="[size]">_data ? (_data->size_cache) : 0</Item>
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@
 		<DisplayString Condition="type == Variant::POOL_COLOR_ARRAY">{*(PoolColorArray *)_data._mem}</DisplayString>
 
 		<StringView Condition="type == Variant::STRING &amp;&amp; ((String *)(_data._mem))->_cowdata._ptr">((String *)(_data._mem))->_cowdata._ptr,su</StringView>
-		
+
 		<Expand>
 			<Item Name="[value]" Condition="type == Variant::BOOL">_data._bool</Item>
 			<Item Name="[value]" Condition="type == Variant::INT">_data._int</Item>
@@ -143,7 +143,7 @@
 			<Item Name="alpha">a</Item>
 		</Expand>
 	</Type>
-	
+
 	<Type Name="Node" Inheritable="false">
 		<Expand>
 			<Item Name="Object">(Object*)this</Item>