I've spent the last hour or so trying to figure out what's happening here, and I simply can't figure out the cause, nor have I accidentally stumbled upon a workaround.
When I run winget upgrade the data returned is correctly encoded:
Yet if I store the response of winget upgrade in a variable ($winget = winget upgrade; $winget;), some characters break, and it seems like an encoding issue:
cmdlets like this will always return strings to PowerShell, so I guess assigning the response to the variable is applying some default text encoding, perhaps from my PowerShell profile? I've tried casting most of the common codes on the variable, but it ends up breaking the data entirely.
I've even dumped the data out in every possible encoding type and they're all broken:
winget upgrade | Out-File -FilePath C:\tmp\test1.txt -Encoding ascii
winget upgrade | Out-File -FilePath C:\tmp\test3.txt -Encoding default
winget upgrade | Out-File -FilePath C:\tmp\test4.txt -Encoding string
winget upgrade | Out-File -FilePath C:\tmp\test5.txt -Encoding unicode
winget upgrade | Out-File -FilePath C:\tmp\test7.txt -Encoding utf32
winget upgrade | Out-File -FilePath C:\tmp\test8.txt -Encoding utf7
winget upgrade | Out-File -FilePath C:\tmp\test9.txt -Encoding utf8
I've managed to affect the faulty characters by re-encoding the string, bt hasn't fix the issue:
$originalBytes = [Text.Encoding]::Default.GetBytes('Microsoft Visual C 2013 Redistributable (x6')
[Text.Encoding]::Utf8.GetString($originalBytes)
CodePudding user response：
I know you said replacing the characters is not an option. I'm curious to see what you come up with. For the rest of us, here is a little code that will turn the output of winget upgrade into usable object.
(winget upgrade) -replace 'ΓǪ|…|…',' ' | ForEach-Object {
if($_ -match '(. ?)\s{2,}(. ?)\s (\S )\s (\S )\s (\S )$'){
$Matches[1..5] -join '|'
}
} | ConvertFrom-Csv -Delimiter '|'
Here is the default output in list form
Name : Cisco Webex Meetings
Id : Cisco.CiscoWebexMeetings
Version : 41.9.5
Available : 41.12.2.15
Source : winget
Name : Discord
Id : Discord.Discord
Version : 0.0.309
Available : 1.0.9003
Source : winget
Name : GitHub Desktop
Id : GitHub.GitHubDesktop
Version : 2.9.0
Available : 2.9.4
Source : winget
And when using Format-Table
Name Id Version Available Source
---- -- ------- --------- ------
Visual Studio Community 2019 Microsoft.VisualStudio.2019.Community 16.10.31410.357 16.11.7 winget
Cisco Webex Meetings Cisco.CiscoWebexMeetings 41.9.5 41.12.2.15 winget
Discord Discord.Discord 0.0.309 1.0.9003 winget
I've tested in 5.1, 7.2, ISE, and Visual Studio Code.
CodePudding user response：
Credit to @JosefZ for sharing the solution, which can be found here: How to configure the encoding for Powershell console?
This is the output of [console]::OutputEncoding:
PS C:\> [console]::OutputEncoding
IsSingleByte : True
BodyName : ibm850
EncodingName : Western European (DOS)
HeaderName : ibm850
WebName : ibm850
WindowsCodePage : 1252
IsBrowserDisplay : False
IsBrowserSave : False
IsMailNewsDisplay : False
IsMailNewsSave : False
EncoderFallback : System.Text.InternalEncoderBestFitFallback
DecoderFallback : System.Text.InternalDecoderBestFitFallback
IsReadOnly : True
CodePage : 850
This is the output of [Console]::Out:
PS C:\> [Console]::Out
Encoding FormatProvider NewLine
-------- -------------- -------
System.Text.SBCSCodePageEncoding en-GB ...
Changing my console output to UTF-8 using [Console]::OutputEncoding = [System.Text.Encoding]::UTF8 has solved the issue.
Now, when I store the cmdlet response in a variable, all is right in the world:
PS C:\> [Console]::OutputEncoding = [System.Text.Encoding]::UTF8
PS C:\> $winget = winget upgrade
PS C:\> $winget
Name Id Version Available Source
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Signal OpenWhisperSystems.Signal 5.20.0 5.23.1 winget
Cisco Webex Meetings Cisco.CiscoWebexMeetings 41.9.5 41.12.2.15 winget
Audacity Audacity.Audacity 3.0.4 3.1.2 winget
Docker Desktop Docker.DockerDesktop 4.1.1 4.2.0 winget
Git Git.Git 2.33.0.2 2.34.0 winget
MongoDB Compass MongoDB.Compass.Full 1.28.4 1.29.4.0 winget
TeamViewer TeamViewer.TeamViewer 15.22.3 15.23.9 winget
Visual Studio Community 2019 Microsoft.VisualStudio.2019.Community 16.11.3 16.11.7 winget
Insomnia Insomnia.Insomnia 2021.5.3 2021.6.0 winget
Microsoft Visual C 2013 Redistributable (x6… Microsoft.VC 2013Redist-x64 12.0.30501.0 12.0.40664.0 winget
Microsoft Visual C 2015-2019 Redistributabl… Microsoft.VC 2015-2019Redist-x64 14.29.30133.0 14.29.30135.0 winget
Microsoft Visual C 2015-2019 Redistributabl… Microsoft.VC 2015-2019Redist-x86 14.29.30133.0 14.29.30135.0 winget
Node.js LTS OpenJS.NodeJS.LTS 14.17.6 16.13.0 winget
Microsoft Visual C 2015-2019 Redistributabl… Microsoft.VC 2015-2019Redist-x64 14.28.29914.0 14.29.30135.0 winget
ScreenToGif NickeManarin.ScreenToGif 2.33.1 2.34.1 winget
MongoDB MongoDB.Server 5.0.2 5.1.0 winget
AWS Command Line Interface Amazon.AWSCLI 2.2.46.0 2.3.7.0 winget
Chrome Remote Desktop Host Google.ChromeRemoteDesktop 92.0.4515.41 96.0.4664.39 winget
Microsoft Visual C 2013 Redistributable (x8… Microsoft.VC 2013Redist-x86 12.0.30501.0 12.0.40664.0 winget
19 upgrades available.