Vista - Standard output encoding

Hi,

I want to use a powershell script for CGI. Naturally for this I need the
output to be in ASCII. It seems like out-file -encoding ascii doesn't help
here, because there is no /dev/stdout that I would use in unix (or is
there?). out-host, out-* on the other hand is missing the -encoding option.
Obviously I'm missing something... Any hint?

harti

If you want the file to contain ASCII encoded data then I think you need to
use out-file as you describe. What exactly are you trying to accomplish?
Are you producing a file to be read by a unix system?

This article regarding files produced by powershell and then being read by
VBScript may help

http://richardsiddaway.spaces.live.c...3E96!175.entry

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"harti" wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I want to use a powershell script for CGI. Naturally for this I need the
> output to be in ASCII. It seems like out-file -encoding ascii doesn't help
> here, because there is no /dev/stdout that I would use in unix (or is
> there?). out-host, out-* on the other hand is missing the -encoding option.
> Obviously I'm missing something... Any hint?
>
> harti

"RichS" wrote:

> If you want the file to contain ASCII encoded data then I think you need to
> use out-file as you describe. What exactly are you trying to accomplish?
> Are you producing a file to be read by a unix system?

I need the standard output to be ASCII. That is what IIS or Apache expect.
So out-file doesn't help, because I have no filename to specify.

harti

Could you use the WSH COM objects in your script to pass the data across to
IIS?


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"harti" wrote:

>
>
> "RichS" wrote:
>
> > If you want the file to contain ASCII encoded data then I think you need to
> > use out-file as you describe. What exactly are you trying to accomplish?
> > Are you producing a file to be read by a unix system?
>
> I need the standard output to be ASCII. That is what IIS or Apache expect.
> So out-file doesn't help, because I have no filename to specify.
>
> harti
>

You can use the $OutputEncoding variable to set the encoding for input to
native applications:

PS> $OutputEncoding = [Text.Encoding]::ASCII

Here's a blog entry that describes OutputEncoding a bit more:
http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/arc...he-rescue.aspx

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"harti" <harti@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:904B94E2-9F77-421D-B738-E12772D659FC@microsoft.com...
> Hi,
>
> I want to use a powershell script for CGI. Naturally for this I need the
> output to be in ASCII. It seems like out-file -encoding ascii doesn't help
> here, because there is no /dev/stdout that I would use in unix (or is
> there?). out-host, out-* on the other hand is missing the -encoding
> option.
> Obviously I'm missing something... Any hint?
>
> harti