Set-Content removes copyright symbol

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Hello,

I am writing a search-and-replace function. The essentials are:

$encoding = Get-FileEncoding $filename $text = Get-Content -Path $filename -Raw $text -replace $searchText, $replaceText | Set-Content -Path $filename -Encoding $encoding

The code is working but a copyright symbol ©, ASCII 184, is being replaced by a question mark.

Any ideas on this?

Thanks,
Dave

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which Encoding you get in $encoding ?
if this function correct, try to use Get-Content -Encoding $encoding
you also can try to save your file in unicode to make sure that copyright still inside.

btw in arial font (C) sign code is A9 (169)

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Hi Max,

sorry for the late reply. Using Unicode does preserve the copyright symbol. Default preserves it as well and doesn’t change the file encoding so I will use that.

Previously the Get-FileEncoding was returning ASCII (which it defaults to if it cannot match any other format).

Thanks,
Dave