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I have written one of my first PowerShell scripts to execute after I mirror my ... other than to rename my original files to ANSI format? 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"Unicode"isthedefault.   Thesearestringvalues. So,wrapyourvalueinquotesas"UTF8"   Tuesday,August3,20107:27PM 0 Signintovote Thanksforthereply. Ididasyousuggested,butsameresult. Tuesday,August3,20107:45PM 0 Signintovote Lookat   http://poshcode.org/1822   Ithinkitshouldworkwith-encoding"UTF8"   -Larry   On8/3/20102:45PM,ChrisLynchwrote: >Thanksforthereply.Ididasyousuggested,butsameresult.     Tuesday,August3,20108:18PM 0 Signintovote Understood. Ibelievethatitshouldworkaswell,butitdoesnot. Iwonderifduringthe-replaceprocesstextisbeingconvertedtoANSIformat,andthenUTF-8whenwritingthefile. Iamsimplyassuminghere. Tuesday,August3,20108:30PM 0 Signintovote Hi, Doyourememberhowyoumanagedyourproblem?Igetthesame regards Monday,May28,20182:41PM 0 Signintovote Pleasedonotreactivateancientthreadsfromotherpeople.Itismuchlikelythattheoriginalposterwillnotcomebackandansweryou. Ifneedecreateanewquestionforyourproblem.Beforeyoushouldcarefullyreviewthefollowinghelptopics: Pleasereadthisfirst: Thisforumisforscripting questionsratherthanscriptrequests. Alsofindscriptshere: PowerShellGalleryorhere: TechNet Gallery-resourcesforITprofessionals. LearnPowerShell: MicrosoftVirtualAcademy-GettingStartedwithMicrosoftPowerShell. Scriptrequests: MicrosoftTechnetScriptCenter-Requests. Bestregards, (79,108,97,102|%{[char]$_})-join'' Editedby BOfH-666 Monday,May28,20182:48PM Monday,May28,20182:45PM 0 Signintovote Himijo, theproblemintheabovecodeisthattheencodinghappensattwo separateinstances,bothwhenthecontentgoesinandout. YoualsohavetochangetheencodingforGet-Contentaccordingly,otherwiseyou'llenduphavingthegarbledcharactersfromtheverybeginninginyourscript. Get-Content-EncodingUTF8 Out-File-EncodingUTF8 Regards, Dequester Editedby Dequester Thursday,July26,20188:07PM Addcode Proposedasanswerby Dequester Thursday,July26,20188:09PM Thursday,July26,20188:06PM  ©2022Microsoft.Allrightsreserved.Newsletter|ContactUs|PrivacyStatement|TermsofUse|Trademarks