Question:
I need to get output of native application under PowerShell. The problem is, output is encoded with UTF-8 (no BOM), which PowerShell does not recognize and just converts those funky UTF chars directly into Unicode.
I’ve found PowerShell has $OutputEncoding variable, but it does not seem to affect input data.
Good ol’ iconv is of no help either, since this unnecessary UTF8-as-if-ASCII => Unicode conversion takes place before the next pipeline member acquires data.
Answer:
I see the issue now with the program below (stdout.cpp – cl stdout.cpp):
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#include void main() { char bytes[] = { 0x41, 0x53, 0x43, 0x49, 0x49, 0x20, 0x6F, 0x75, 0x74, 0x70, 0x75, 0x74, 0xE1, 0xBE, 0xB9}; for (int i = 0; i < 15; i++) { printf("%c", bytes[i]); } } |
And running that through | Out-File -enc UTF8 foo.txt gives the gibberish:
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PS> fhex foo.txt Address: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F ASCII -------- ----------------------------------------------- ---------------- 00000000 EF BB BF 41 53 43 49 49 20 6F 75 74 70 75 74 0D ...ASCII output. 00000010 9F E2 95 9B E2 95 A3 0D 0A ......... |
Note that fhex is a PSCX utility.
UPDATE: Figured out how to get this to work:
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$enc = [Console]::OutputEncoding [Console]::OutputEncoding = [text.encoding]::utf8 .\stdout.exe | out-file fubar3.txt -enc utf8 fhex .\fubar3.txt Address: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F ASCII -------- ----------------------------------------------- ---------------- 00000000 EF BB BF 41 53 43 49 49 20 6F 75 74 70 75 74 E1 ...ASCII output. 00000010 BE B9 0D 0A .... [Console]::OutputEncoding = $enc |