I'm using powershell to create a file, I need this file to be UTF8 Encoded, thus far all of the attempts I've tried have failed.
Inspecting the file in Notepad++ shows UCS-2 LE BOM as the encoding. Is it possible for powershell to use UTF8 instead?
So far I've tried -encoding utf8 and currently I'm using [IO.File]::WriteAllLines($filename, $text)
There may be an underlying issue (forgive me, very new to Powershell) that is causing the problem as I receive this error in the console however the file is being created:
Cannot process argument because the value of argument "path" is null. Change the value of argument "path" to a non-null value.
+ CategoryInfo : InvalidArgument: (:) [Out-File], PSArgumentNullException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : ArgumentNull,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.OutFileCommand
+ PSComputerName : 50.19.209.240
ChangeFileModeByMask error (3): The system cannot find the path specified.
+ CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (ChangeFileModeB...path specified.:String) [], RemoteException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : NativeCommandError
+ PSComputerName : 50.19.209.240
Edit:
Edited after answer given to provide more info.
Details from the file:
write-host "Creating Application.conf in UTF-8"
$filename = "c:\application.conf"
[IO.File]::WriteAllLines($filename, $text, [System.Text.Encoding]::UTF8)
the output in the console is still erroring as per the above.