UTF-8 encoding while replacing string [SOLVED]

[AlphaInc.]

Hello everybody,

I recently set a mediaInfo script that outputs information about different media files inside a specific folder.
Now after every output I need to change some strings in the created output. For that I use the following command:

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powershell -Command "(gc myFile.txt) -replace 'foo', 'bar' | Out-File -encoding ASCII myFile.txt"

The problem I have is that there is an Umlaut which gets replaced (ö turns into ??). I also tried to replace ASCII encoding with utf8 with no success. Is there anyway to get my Umlaut into my encoded text-file OR use another string-replacement-string ?

[aGerman]

The important question is, what's the encoding of the input? If you know it, you have to specify it along with gc.
FWIW Obviously ASCII makes things worse because only 7-bit ASCII characters are supported in this case.

Steffen

[AlphaInc.]

I don’t know, I created the txt file by using Mediainfo with a template and then output it (Mediainfo -Inform=file://template.txt Video.mkv >> Output.txt) to a text file.

[aGerman]

I don't know anything about mediaInfo-
Try to run the tool I uploaded in Jean-François' thread. Maybe it's able to tell you the encoding.
viewtopic.php?p=64494#p64494
If you don't succeed, put the text file in a zip archive and upload it here. I'll probably find it out for you in no time.

Steffen

[AlphaInc.]

I'll try it, thank you.
But (for all who may run into something similar) found a workaround for that. I replaced the powershell command with a python script which replaces the string without having to deal with the encoding of the file. Maybe not ideal but it's good enough for my use case.

[aGerman]

python script

If Python works out of the box then it's a strong indication that the text is UTF-8-encoded.

without having to deal with the encoding of the file

That's just luck

Steffen