How to change unicode of a variable in PowerShell

Question

Hi
I am trying to store a value of a git command into a variable. The command results in a name that contains a Danish Alphabet character. When I give that git command only, on the prompt I get the correct result. As shown below:
PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> git config user.nameJohn Møller
but when I store the result of this command into a variable and then display that variable I get different result. what wrong am i doing? Is it something to do with unicode utf8? can I use get-content -encoding utf8 to change the unicode setting of a variable.
I know get-content work with files.
PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> $nameingit = git config user.name
PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> $nameingit
John M├©ller
Any help will be appreciated.
Regrds

Answer 1

This is my code which I am trying to run i PowerShell. I am simply comparing two values. One is coming from a command "$nameingit = git config user.name" and other from $name which full user name of the current user on the machine. next, i first
check if there is any special character in the $name or $nameingit. if it is there then i try to use get-content command to change the unicode to utf8. But it does not work for me. All the links talk about sending out put to file in utf8 but I want to change
the unicode of variable itself so that it can read danish alphabets.
$nameingit = git config user.name
$dom = $env:userdomain
$usr = $env:username
$name=([adsi]"WinNT://$dom/$usr,user").fullname
if ($name -match '[^a-zA-Z0-9 ]')
$name = Get-Content -Encoding UTF8 $name
if ($nameingit -match '[^a-zA-Z0-9 ]')
$nameingit = Get-Content -Encoding UTF8 $nameingit
if ($nameingit.trim() -eq "$name".Trim()) 
$usrchk = "PASS"
else
$usrchk = "Failed"