Powershell '>' operator, change encoding?

Question

Is there a way to change the default encoding of the > operator in powershell? I'd like it to output as ANSI as UTF-8 for my requirements.txt:

pip freeze > requirements.txt

score 12 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 16 '14 at 02:48

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pip freeze | Out-File -Encoding UTF8 requirements.txt

or you can try

pip freeze > iconv -f UTF-8 -t ISO-8859-1 in.txt > out.txt

you can read about iconv

answered Jul 16 '14 at 02:48

sundar nataraj

@jeff try ISO-8859-1 for that – sundar nataraj Jul 16 '14 at 02:56
ut-File : Cannot validate argument on parameter 'Encoding'. The argument "ISO-8859-1" does not belong to the set unknown,string,unicode,bigendianunicode,utf8,utf7,utf32,ascii,default,oem" specified by the ValidateSet attribute. – Jeff Jul 16 '14 at 02:58
@Jeff try utf-8-sig this one . i am learning about them . i have searched and saw this more useful link http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8898294/convert-utf-8-with-bom-to-utf-8-with-no-bom-in-python – sundar nataraj Jul 16 '14 at 03:03
I don't think it is supported by powershell. – Jeff Jul 16 '14 at 03:04
@Jeff then try in python write a python code that converts.use std.in and std.out for this save the result in txt file. – sundar nataraj Jul 16 '14 at 03:05
@Jeff some useful links http://stackoverflow.com/questions/76482/powershell-setting-encoding-for-get-content-pipeline – sundar nataraj Jul 16 '14 at 03:17

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