Encode a string in UTF-8

powershell utf-8 encode
user3562182 picture user3562182 · Apr 24, 2014 · Viewed 59.7k times · Source

I want to encode a string into UTF8 in PowerShell.

This is what I tried:

$consumer_key ="xvz1evFS4wEEPTGEFPHBog"
$enc_consumer_key = System.Text.UTF8Encoding($consumer_key)

But I get an error:

System.Text.UTF8Encoding in not recognize as the name of cmdlet

Answer

justpaul picture justpaul · Apr 24, 2014

Try this instead:

$enc = [System.Text.Encoding]::UTF8
$consumerkey ="xvz1evFS4wEEPTGEFPHBog"
$encconsumerkey= $enc.GetBytes($consumerkey)

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