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Problems with encoding UTF-8 in Powershell #170

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antoningfors opened this issue Oct 31, 2022 · 0 comments
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Problems with encoding UTF-8 in Powershell #170

antoningfors opened this issue Oct 31, 2022 · 0 comments

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Per default Windows 10 and Windows 11 do not use UTF-8 unless you manually enable as a Beta feature under Region Settings in intl.cpl

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Without that setting enabled both Sublime and Powershell are having problems reading and displaying special characters such as "åäö".

Here is an example below on a machine without UTF-8 enabled running files from the Powershell console.

File encoding: UTF-8
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File encoding: UTF-8 with BOM
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As you can see Powershell is unable read the string when the file encoding is "UTF-8" and everything works fine when the encoding is set to "UTF-8 with BOM".

Here is another example with the Build Panel is Sublime Text
File encoding: UTF-8
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File encoding: UTF-8 with BOM
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As you can see the output is still wrong in the Build Panel even when the encoding is set to "UTF-8 with BOM". But it can be fixed by running chcp.exe in cmd

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And then changing the encoding settings in the build job.

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As stated before this is only an issue when the UTF-8 Beta feature in Windows is disabled. If you enable UTF-8 support the Sublime Text build panel and powershell console works without any issues.

I am not sure how to handle the build panel problem but at least changing the default encoding format for Powershell files to "UTF-8 with BOM" would prevent scripts processing special characters from causing unwanted bugs. This could probably be done by updating PowershellSyntax.sublime-settings with "default_encoding": "UTF-8 with BOM". But I am not sure how that would affect Linux or Powershell Core users.

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