I want to encode a string into UTF8 in PowerShell.
This is what I tried:
$consumer_key ="xvz1evFS4wEEPTGEFPHBog"
$enc_consumer_key = System.Text.UTF8Encoding($consumer_key)
But I get an error:
System.Text.UTF8Encoding in not recognize as the name of cmdlet
Try this instead:
$enc = [System.Text.Encoding]::UTF8
$consumerkey ="xvz1evFS4wEEPTGEFPHBog"
$encconsumerkey= $enc.GetBytes($consumerkey)
Encode/Decode:
$enc = [System.Text.Encoding]::UTF8.GetBytes("â")
# 195 162
[System.Text.Encoding]::UTF8.GetString($enc)
# â
[System.Text.Encoding]::ASCII.GetString($enc)
# ??
[System.Text.Encoding]::Default.GetString($enc) # Windows-1252
# â
This is the best question I search that lead me to the above solution for text encoding/decoding characters in PowerShell. In my case I was trying to debug malformed UTF8 characters. Hope it helps someone in the future.
-Check that BOM
If you just want to write the string to file:
$consumer_key ="xvz1evFS4wEEPTGEFPHBog"
$consumer_key | Out-File c:\path\utf8file.txt -Encoding UTF8
$input = 'salut 🔥' $output = [System.Text.Encoding]::UTF8.GetString([System.Text.Encoding]::UTF8.GetBytes($input)) $output
