Unreadable non-ANSI characters in Notepad

nek4d said:

1st code of step 3
Set-ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Scope Process -Force
gives me
'Set-ExecutionPolicy' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

2nd code of step 3
$env:USERPROFILE\Desktop\CheckFileEncoding.ps1
gives me
The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect.

i did not try next steps.
It does not work anymore.
Maybe something is changed with the new win 10 updates, from the time the article was written until today.
Any help?

PowerShell... not Command prompt!

meliander said:

I can't get it to work. It seems that it could work on the files, that were created and saved in ANSI using the non-English system locale without warning. So the text was saved properly and is just unreadable in the English locale. However I created and saved the document in the English system locale, didn't pay attention to the warning and probably this was the moment when the text was lost. I was able to run the script, but the converted file still shows "?" marks for me.

Hi and welcome to TenForums!

Since the post was created, notepad has changed its default encoding from ANSI to UTF8 with BOM, when saving documents, in Windows 10.
The ANSI encoding was the one creating issues to the non-English locales, since it could not recognize the characters above 255. Nowadays shouldn't be any problem. And especially to English locales!

Would it be possible to post the exact steps you took, so I can reproduce the problem you're facing?

petrikos said:

At line:1 char:17
+ $env:USERPROFILE\Desktop\CheckFileEncoding.ps1
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Unexpected token '\Desktop\CheckFileEncoding.ps1' in expression or statement.
+ CategoryInfo : ParserError: (:) [], ParentContainsErrorRecordException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : UnexpectedToken

Sorry for the problem, but it works perfectly on my end.
Can you please check if the file is blocked and unblock it.