Display Japanese characters in English Powershell console

Question

_{Wednesday, August 29, 2012 2:57 PM}

Hi,

I am new to Powershell.I have problem in reading the output in Japanese ,below is the script I am using

$query = "Select * From Msvm_ComputerSystem "
$VOs = (gwmi -query $query -namespace "root\virtualization" -Cred $cred -Computername $computer )

This script runs in a server ,connects to remote hyper-v server to get information.

formatted output displays as shown below -

Name=WIN-B3529U0800R
ElementName=WIN-B3529U0800R
Description=Microsoft ???????
EnabledState=2
Caption=???????
IP=
ProcessId=
HostName=WIN-B3529U0800R
Name=AAA180ED-94A5-47D7-8F91-CEC30B351D5B
ElementName=?????
Description=Microsoft ???
EnabledState=2
Caption=???
IP=
HostName=WIN-B3529U0800R

All the question marks are Japanese characters which displays fine in Japanese powershell.Requirement is to get the ouput correctly(Japanes/Chinese) in English Hyper-v and pass it to java code for further processing.Please suggest how can I fix this.

Thanks,

Chetan

All replies (5)

_{Wednesday, August 29, 2012 8:36 PM ✅Answered}

I thinks easy way using PowerShell ISE instead of powershell console.

Pass correct encoding,you may use:

$OutputEncoding - http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2006/12/11/outputencoding-to-the-rescue.aspx

_{Wednesday, August 29, 2012 3:00 PM}

Correction:

All the question marks are Japanese characters which displays fine in Japanese powershell.Requirement is to get the ouput correctly(Japanes/Chinese) in English POWERSHELL and pass it to java code for further processing.Please suggest how can I fix this.

_{Thursday, August 30, 2012 8:40 AM | 2 votes}

If you want display national symbols in Powershell window you may open properties of the windows, select Font tab and select TrueType font.

Сазонов Илья http://isazonov.wordpress.com/

_{Friday, August 31, 2012 3:45 PM}

Thanks Kazun, It does work on powershell ISE,but not sure if I can just replace PS console with ISE...seems there is some complication in invoking powershell_ise from c# http://www.vistax64.com/powershell/265426-how-invoke-powershell-ise-c-code-specific-script.html

_{Friday, August 31, 2012 3:48 PM}

Thanks ILYA