powershell character encoding from System.Net.WebClient

Question

I am running the following command:

([xml](new-object net.webclient).DownloadString(
"http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/rss.aspx"
)).rss.channel.item | format-table title,link

The output for one of the RSS items contains this weird text:

You Donâ€™t Have to Be An Administrator to Run Remote PowerShell Commands

So, the question is:

Why the mix up in characters? What happened to the apostrophe? Why is the output rendered as Donâ€™t when it should just render as Don't?
How would I get the correct character in the PowerShell standard output?

this shows an important aspect of powershell .Net interaction. I usually program in .Net and failed to view this as a .Net setting to be made. — elgrego
– elgrego, Commented Jan 9, 2010 at 7:26

Filburt · Accepted Answer · 2010-01-07 09:31:15Z

11

You need to set the encoding property of the webclient:

$wc = New-Object System.Net.WebClient
$wc.Encoding = [System.Text.Encoding]::UTF8
([xml]$wc.DownloadString( "http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/rss.aspx" )).rss.channel.item | format-table title,link

answered Jan 7, 2010 at 9:31

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