Using redirection within the script produces a unicode output. How to emit single-byte ASCII text?

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I am using Sandcastle Helpfile Builder to produce a helpfile (.chm). The project is a .shfbproj file, which is XML format, works with msbuild.

I want to automatically update the Footer text that appears in the generated .chm file. I use this snippet: 

$newFooter = "<FooterText>MyProduct v1.2.3.4</FooterText>";

get-content  -Encoding ASCII $projFile.FullName | 
    %{$_ -replace '<FooterText>(.+)</FooterText>', $newFooter } > $TmpFile

move-item $TmpFile $projFile.FullName -force

The output directed to the $TmpFile is always a multi-byte string. But I don't want that. How do I set the encoding of the output to ASCII?

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6 Answers

You can set the default encoding of out-file to be ascii:

$PSDefaultParameterValues=@{'out-file:encoding'='ascii'}

Then something like this will result in an ascii file:

echo hi > out

In powershell 6 and 7, the default encoding of out-file was changed to utf8 no bom.

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Just a little example using streams, although I realize this wasn't the original question.

C:\temp\ConfirmWrapper.ps1 -Force -Verbose 4>&1 6>&1 | Out-File -Encoding default -FilePath C:\temp\confirmLog.txt -Append

Will output the information(6) and verbose(4) streams to the output(1) stream and redirect all that to the out-file with ANSI(default) encoding.

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