How do I encode Unicode character codes in a PowerShell string literal?
powershell, string-literals, unicode, unicode-literals
Solution
Replace '\u' with '0x' and cast it to System.Char:
PS > [char]0x0048
H
You can also use the "$()" syntax to embed a Unicode character into a string:
PS > "Acme$([char]0x2122) Company"
AcmeT Company
Where T is PowerShell's representation of the character for non-registered trademarks.
Note: this method works only for characters in Plane 0, the BMP (Basic Multilingual Plane), chars < U+10000.
Problem
How can I encode the Unicode character U+0048 (H), say, in a PowerShell string? In C# I would just do this: `"\u0048"`, but that doesn't appear to work in PowerShell.