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Jan 7

TIL: If you redirect console output to a file on Windows, it will be UTF-16 encoded. Using grep within WSL on that file won't work, you first need to convert to UTF-8. "iconv -f UTF-16 -t UTF-8 myfile | grep pattern" This shit cost me about half an hour to figure out.

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namazso

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It actually depends. If you use the new PowerShell (which you should), it's default UTF-8. You can also configure it in Windows PowerShell:

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Changing PowerShell's default output encoding to UTF-8

By default, when you redirect the output of a command to a file or pipe it into something else in PowerShell, the encoding is UTF-16, which isn't useful. I'm looking to change it to UTF-8. It can be

11:31 PM · Jan 7, 2023

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