Using .NET’s UTF8Encoding class and passing $False to the constructor seems to work: $MyRawString = Get-Content -Raw $MyPath $Utf8NoBomEncoding = New-Object System.Text.UTF8Encoding $False [System.IO.File]::WriteAllLines($MyPath, $MyRawString, $Utf8NoBomEncoding)
EDIT: I’ve made a proper release on GitHub: https://github.com/gpakosz/UnicodeBOMInputStream Here is a class I coded a while ago, I just edited the package name before pasting. Nothing special, it is quite similar to solutions posted in SUN’s bug database. Incorporate it in your code and you’re fine. /* ____________________________________________________________________________ * * File: UnicodeBOMInputStream.java * Author: … Read more
The UTF-8 BOM is a sequence of bytes at the start of a text stream (0xEF, 0xBB, 0xBF) that allows the reader to more reliably guess a file as being encoded in UTF-8. Normally, the BOM is used to signal the endianness of an encoding, but since endianness is irrelevant to UTF-8, the BOM is … Read more