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What is the default encoding (charset) used by PowerShell?

I have figured out it is not UTF-8, but how can I know what encoding is used then instead?

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See this related SU question: Default PowerShell to emitting UTF-8 instead of UTF-16? – techie007 Nov 28 '11 at 0:53

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UTF-16 (as with everything in Windows itself – applications are a different matter).

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