Displaying Chinese in Powershell and Powershell ISE

Question

I have a PS that retrieves file names and URLs from webpages, download files, display file names and download progress on screen and save files on disk.
file names are Chinese and were displayed correctly in Chinese both in Powershell console and in Powershell ISE before. But now they are displayed correctly only in Powershell ISE, not in Powershell console anymore. Any suggestion? thanks
 

Answer 1

I experienced the same with Japanese Characters.
If you are using Invoke-WebRequest,
you can try this.
$JP_MSSITE = Invoke-WebRequest www.microsoft.co.jp
if ( $JP_MSSITE.BaseResponse.ContentType.Contains("charset=") )
$TITLE = $JP_MSSITE.ParsedHtml.title
else
$METADATAS = $JP_MSSITE.ParsedHtml.getElementsByTagName("meta")
if ( $METADATAS.charset -ne $null) {
$CHARSET = $METADATAS.charset
}else{
ForEach ($METADATA in $METADATAS) {
if( $METADATA.charset -ne $null ){
$CHARSET = $METADATA.charset
break
if($METADATA.content -match 'text/html;.*charset=(.*)|charset=(.*);.*text/html')
$CHARSET = $matches[1]
break
try {
$TITLE =[System.Text.Encoding]::GetEncoding($CHARSET).GetString([System.Text.Encoding]::GetEncoding("ISO-8859-1").GetBytes($JP_MSSITE.ParsedHtml.title))
}catch{
$TITLE = "Not supported"
Write-Host $TITLE
It was asked here.
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/cbf40856-9157-42ae-8127-0328b4664405/cant-show-content-of-invokewebrequest-in-unicode?forum=winserverpowershell#cbf40856-9157-42ae-8127-0328b4664405