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I have a file saved as UCS-2 Little Endian I want to change the encoding so I ran the following code:
cat tmp.log -encoding UTF8 > new.log The resulting file is still in UCS-2 Little Endian. Is this because the pipeline is always in that format? Is there an easy way to pipe this to a new file as UTF8?
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PowerShell uses a Unicode character set by default. However, several cmdlets have an Encoding parameter that can specify encoding for a different character set. This parameter allows you to choose the specific the character encoding you need for interoperability with other systems and applications.
The Get-Content cmdlet gets the content of the item at the location specified by the path, such as the text in a file or the content of a function. For files, the content is read one line at a time and returns a collection of objects, each of which represents a line of content.
When you want to read the entire contents of a text file, the easiest way is to use the built-in Get-Content function. When you execute this command, the contents of this file will be displayed in your command prompt or the PowerShell ISE screen, depending on where you execute it.
As suggested here:
Get-Content tmp.log | Out-File -Encoding UTF8 new.log I would do it like this:
get-content tmp.log -encoding Unicode | set-content new.log -encoding UTF8 My understanding is that the -encoding option selects the encdoing that the file should be read or written in.
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