diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes
index 889d58257f..f03c0fe3c9 100644
--- a/.gitattributes
+++ b/.gitattributes
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 *           whitespace=indent-with-non-tab,trailing-space,space-before-tab,tabwidth=4
 *           encoding=US-ASCII
 git-gui.sh  encoding=UTF-8
-/po/*.po    encoding=UTF-8
+*.po        encoding=UTF-8
 /GIT-VERSION-GEN eol=lf
 Makefile    whitespace=!indent,trail,space
 meson.build whitespace=space