{"id":6581,"date":"2015-04-18T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-18T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2015\/04\/18\/powertip-save-csv-data-and-maintain-unicode-encoding\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T10:29:51","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T17:29:51","slug":"powertip-save-csv-data-and-maintain-unicode-encoding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-save-csv-data-and-maintain-unicode-encoding\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Save CSV Data and Maintain Unicode Encoding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b style=\"font-size:12px\">Summary<\/b><span style=\"font-size:12px\">: Use Windows PowerShell to save data as a CSV file and maintain the Unicode encoding.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/q-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Question\" \/>&nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to save my data as a CSV file but ensure that it is saved as Unicode?<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:30px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/a-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Answer\" \/>&nbsp;Make sure you specify the&nbsp;<b>&ndash;Encoding<\/b>&nbsp;parameter when you call the&nbsp;<b>Export-CSV<\/b>&nbsp;cmdlet, for example:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:90px\">Export-Csv -Path C:\\Data\\Names.CSV -Encoding Unicode -NoTypeInformation<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:30px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\" alt=\" \" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to save data as a CSV file and maintain the Unicode encoding. &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to save my data as a CSV file but ensure that it is saved as Unicode? &nbsp;Make sure you specify the&nbsp;&ndash;Encoding&nbsp;parameter when you call the&nbsp;Export-CSV&nbsp;cmdlet, for example: Export-Csv -Path C:\\Data\\Names.CSV -Encoding Unicode -NoTypeInformation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"featured_media":87096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[356,3,45],"class_list":["post-6581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-powertip","tag-scripting-guy","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to save data as a CSV file and maintain the Unicode encoding. &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to save my data as a CSV file but ensure that it is saved as Unicode? &nbsp;Make sure you specify the&nbsp;&ndash;Encoding&nbsp;parameter when you call the&nbsp;Export-CSV&nbsp;cmdlet, for example: Export-Csv -Path C:\\Data\\Names.CSV -Encoding Unicode -NoTypeInformation<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}