Vista - Extended characters not kept when creating new users

Hi
I received a list of users with extended characters in their names like "
röidste or O'Neil "
When i copy paste the name in AD, it works fine. However when i use
New-Qaduser to create the user in AD from the text file, I get blocks instead
of extended characters. O�Neill

Does one know what could be the cause of the problem ?

Thanks in advance

This worked for me

New-QADUser -ParentContainer 'Manticore.org/Test' -Name 'Jo O''Neill'
-FirstName Jo -LastName 'O''Neill' -SamAccountName jooneill
-UserPrincipalName jooneill@xxxxxx

Escape the ' by using 2
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"Bruno" wrote:

Hi

sorry for the bad example, as the ' is already used in powershell, i
understand very well that it's to be treated and escaped. Is this also true
for the ö character ?
brgds
bruno

"RichS [MVP]" wrote:

With characters like ö I've not had much success in the past
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"Bruno" wrote:

If you're reading the list from a file with Get-Content, the file's encoding could be the cause.
If you can, overwrite the file with Set-Content and change its encoding to Unicode; if you can't overwrite it, create a new file with Unicode encoding:

# to overwrite and change encoding
(gc list.txt) | sc list.txt -encoding Unicode

# to create a new file
gc list.txt | sc newList.txt -encoding Unicode

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Kiron

thanks for the tip
will have a try and advise.
brgds


"Kiron" wrote:

Hi
thanks again for your help
this worked fine !
brgds


"Kiron" wrote: