Repair Encoding

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Repair-Encoding

SYNOPSIS

Re-encodes commonly mis-encoded text.

SYNTAX

InputObject (Default)

Repair-Encoding [-InputObject] <String> [-ProgressAction <ActionPreference>] [<CommonParameters>]

Path

Repair-Encoding -Path <String> [-ProgressAction <ActionPreference>] [<CommonParameters>]

DESCRIPTION

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EXAMPLES

EXAMPLE 1

Repair-Encoding.ps1 'SmartQuotes Aren’t'

SmartQuotes Aren't

PARAMETERS

-InputObject

The string containing encoding failures to fix.

Type: String
Parameter Sets: InputObject
Aliases:

Required: True
Position: 0
Default value: None
Accept pipeline input: True (ByValue)
Accept wildcard characters: False

-Path

A mis-encoded file to fix.

Type: String
Parameter Sets: Path
Aliases: FullName

Required: True
Position: Named
Default value: None
Accept pipeline input: True (ByPropertyName)
Accept wildcard characters: False

-ProgressAction

{{ Fill ProgressAction Description }}

Type: ActionPreference
Parameter Sets: (All)
Aliases: proga

Required: False
Position: Named
Default value: None
Accept pipeline input: False
Accept wildcard characters: False

CommonParameters

This cmdlet supports the common parameters: -Debug, -ErrorAction, -ErrorVariable, -InformationAction, -InformationVariable, -OutVariable, -OutBuffer, -PipelineVariable, -Verbose, -WarningAction, and -WarningVariable. For more information, see about_CommonParameters.

INPUTS

System.String containing encoding failures to fix.

Or any object with a Path or FullName property to use for a file location.

OUTPUTS

System.String with the encoding corrected, if InputObject is used.

Path is written back to the file.

NOTES

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