Using redirection within the script produces a unicode output. How to emit single-byte ASCII text?
powershell, unicode
Solution
You could change the $OutputEncoding variable before writing to the file. The other option is not to use the `>` operator, but instead pipe directly to `Out-File` and use the `-Encoding` parameter.
Problem
I am using Sandcastle Helpfile Builder to produce a helpfile (.chm). The project is a .shfbproj file, which is XML format, works with msbuild. I want to automatically update the Footer text that appears in the generated .chm file. I use this snippet: ``` $newFooter = "<FooterText>MyProduct v1.2.3.4</FooterText>"; get-content -Encoding ASCII $projFile.FullName | %{$_ -replace '<FooterText>(.+)</FooterText>', $newFooter } > $TmpFile move-item $TmpFile $projFile.FullName -force ``` The output directed to the $TmpFile is always a multi-byte string. But I don't want that. How do I set the encoding of the output to ASCII?