[Bug] Get-Encoding returns UTF-8 instead of UTF-16 LE

[nagromc]

Bug Report

Current Behavior

A little bit of debugging shows that Get-Encoding returns UTF-8 for the file of the file https://www.xyplorer.com/download/History.txt

Expected Behavior

According to chardetect, VS Code, Sublime Text, and Notepad++ the character encoding is UTF-16 LE BOM.

Additional context/output

I was trying to write an app manifest for xyplorer (paid version on my personal bucket).

Possible Solution

System details

Windows version: 10 22H2

OS architecture: 64bit

PowerShell version: 5 1 19041 3996

Additional software: [(optional) e.g. ConEmu, Git]

Scoop Configuration

{
    "aria2-warning-enabled":  false,
    "last_update":  "2024-02-05T22:29:40.3891902+01:00",
    "scoop_branch":  "master",
    "scoop_repo":  "https://github.com/ScoopInstaller/Scoop"
}

[davidxuang]

Hi, PowerShell does not have encoding detection. Windows PowerShell defaults to UTF-16LE while PowerShell (Core) defaults to UTF-8.

See: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsoft.powershell.core/about/about_character_encoding?view=powershell-7.4

[rashil2000]

Hi @nagromc! What's the error you're facing? I'll try to repro it

[niheaven]

Why did you turn so many issues into discussions? Any advantage here? @rashil2000

[rashil2000]

If there's something actionable for us to do in Scoop core - implementing a feature or fixing a bug, I keep it as an issue, otherwise help topics, questions, support etc. are moved to Discussions (with the appropriate category - Ideas, Help and Questions etc.).