Verify It Displays IncorrectlyHere you see the Norwegian vowels are incorrectly displayed as question marks ("?") after being processed by Import-Csv. The possible enumeration values are "Unknown, String, Unicode, Byte, BigEndianUnicode, UTF8, UTF7, Ascii". Specify one of the following enumeration values anĭ try again. Cannot convert value "whatever" to type ".įileSystemCmdletProviderEncoding" due to invalid enumeration values. Set-Content : Cannot bind parameter 'Encoding'. PS C:\> 'foo' | Set-Content -Encoding whatever Listing the cmdlet Set-Content's Supported EncodingsA hack to list the supported encodings is to use one that doesn't exist: NET System.String type, which is a reference type (read more about that in my deep copying article).Ī string can be arbitrarily long (computer memory and physics as we currently understand it allowing) and it is immutable, meaning it can't be changed without creating an entirely new altered version/"copy" of the string.
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Internally in PowerShell, a string is a sequence of 16-bit Unicode characters (often called a Unicode code point or Unicode scalar value).
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Type "Get-Help Set-Content -Online" at a PowerShell prompt to read the help text, and see the example below.Īlso see the part about using Get-Content file.csv | ConvertFrom-Csv.Ĭlick here for an article on how to convert using iconv on Linux. The bug was submitted to Microsoft Connect years ago here.Ī command you may be looking for is Set-Content. The bug occurs when the file is missing the UTF-8 BOM (more on that below). : It's a known bug that has probably been fixed. The problem occurred when I wanted to work on the CSV file using the PowerShell cmdlet Import-Csv, which, as far as I can tell, doesn't work correctly with latin1-encoded files exported from Excel or ANSI files created with notepad - if they contain non-US characters. I ran into this when working with exported data from Excel which was in latin1/ISO8859-1 by default, and I couldn't find a way to specify UTF-8 in Excel. If you have an ANSI-encoded file, or a file encoded using some other (supported) encoding, and want to convert it to UTF-8 (or another supported encoding), this article is for you. This article was originally written some time between 20. Convert from most encodings to utf8 with powershell - Svendsen Tech