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Repairing Windows Powershell Text Mangling When Piping to File
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Hi! Quick tip I found out for anyone (or myself) who accidentally piped or concatenated important data to a file with Powershell and found that text was mangled. You might see "’" converted to "ΓÇÖ" or "Mötley Crüe" converted to "M├╢tley Cr├╝e" for example.
To fix, simply run this command in Powershell after editing the input and output filenames:
```
Get-Content [input] | Out-File [output] -Encoding Oem
```
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