Setting input encoding for Windows PowerShell

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I'm working with a Java application's text interface on Windows using PowerShell. As parameters for text commands I need to input words containing non-standard latin characters (Central European). Those parameter words are than compared with words stored in the application's "dictionary". If a parameter matches with some word in dictionary I get expected results.

The problem comes with input encoding. The application stores dicionary words using UTF-8. And I cannot make PowerShell to pass my parameters encoded in UTF-8. They don't match with words in the application because of encoding differences.

I tried to control the input encoding in PowerShell setting $OutputEncoding and [Console]::InputEncoding variables to UTF-8. However, parameters are still wrongly encoded. How to make PowerShell encode keybord input, which is passed to application, using UTF-8?

May the problem actually lay on the Java side?

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 03 '14 at 05:39

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what about defining a reader that encodes to UTF-8?
Here what I do reading from a socket:

    $Enc    = [System.Text.Encoding]::UTF8
    $client = New-Object System.Net.Sockets.TcpClient $IPAddr, $Port 
    $stream = $client.GetStream()
    $reader = New-Object System.IO.StreamReader($stream, $Enc)

answered Jun 03 '14 at 05:39

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I should choose my local IP address and whichever free port? I'm doing that and I get error when executing second line "host refusing connection". – Denikin Jun 03 '14 at 10:27
I don't fully understand your construction of exchanging the text between keyboard, PowerShell, Java and a (more) files. – gooly Jun 03 '14 at 14:52
The Java application reads in loop from System.in. I just run the app in PowerShell and type commands defined by the app, which include non-standard latin words. I wish the app could get them as UTF-8. This is actually the app: https://code.google.com/p/airhead-research/wiki/SemanticSpaceExplorer – Denikin Jun 03 '14 at 15:15

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:49

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I found this topic discussed here: Unicode characters in Windows command line - how?

It seems that there is no solution to my problem.

edited May 23 '17 at 11:49

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answered Jun 10 '14 at 17:58

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Setting input encoding for Windows PowerShell

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