Powershell: Get default system encoding

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The powershell cmdlet out-file has the switch -encoding witch you can set to default. This default value will use the encoding of the system's current ANSI code page.
My question is: How can I get the name of this default encoding that out-file will use with powershell?

I am not using default anymore. My experience is that "current ANSI code page" translates to "something that other programs are not really fond of except notepad", which I believe is a multibyte Unicode . — J.N., Mar 16 '11 at 14:03
@J.N. I don't want to use default, but I have to. Normally I would use UTF8 or UTF16, but in this case I have some problems with legacy code. — Ocaso Protal, Mar 16 '11 at 14:10
@Oscaso : I wish you a better luck next time! There should be best practices forbidding the writing of legacy code from the start. I wonder why nobody did it yet :). — J.N., Mar 16 '11 at 14:18

score 34 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 16 '11 at 14:05

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Take a look at [System.Text.Encoding]::Default, I believe it is used as "default".

E.g. in my case:

[System.Text.Encoding]::Default.EncodingName

gets

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answered Mar 16 '11 at 14:05

Roman Kuzmin

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That looks exactly like what i want. Thanks! – Ocaso Protal Mar 16 '11 at 14:11
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You can also use [System.Text.Encoding]::Default to get everthing. – wizmagister May 16 '18 at 17:25

Powershell: Get default system encoding

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