powershell - Encoding of the response of the Invoke-Webrequest -

when using cmdlet invokewebrequest against web non-english characters, see no way of defining encoding of response / page content.

i use simple on http://colours.cz/ucinkujici/ , names of artists corrupted. can try simple line:

invoke-webrequest http://colours.cz/ucinkujici 

is caused design of cmdlet? can specify encoding somwhere somehow? there workaround parsed response?

it seems me correct :/

here 1 way content right, not dealing htmlwebresponseobject:

invoke-webrequest http://colours.cz/ucinkujici -outfile .\colours.cz.txt $content = gc .\colours.cz.txt -encoding utf8 -raw 

this equally far:

[net.httpwebrequest]$httpwebrequest = [net.webrequest]::create('http://colours.cz/ucinkujici/') [net.httpwebresponse]$httpwebresponse = $httpwebrequest.getresponse() $reader = new-object io.streamreader($httpwebresponse.getresponsestream()) $content = $reader.readtoend() $reader.close() 

should want such htmlwebresponseobject, here way e.g. stuff parsedhtml more or less "readable" invoke-webrequest ($bad vs. $better):

invoke-webrequest http://colours.cz/ucinkujici -outvariable htmlwebresponse $bad = $htmlwebresponse.parsedhtml.title $better = [text.encoding]::utf8.getstring([text.encoding]::default.getbytes($bad)) $bad = $htmlwebresponse.links[7].outerhtml $better = [text.encoding]::utf8.getstring([text.encoding]::default.getbytes($bad)) 

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update: here new take on this, knowing want work parsedhtml.
once have content, can this:

$parsedhtml = new-object -com "htmlfile" $parsedhtml.ihtmldocument2_write($content) $parsedhtml.close() 

et voilà :] e.g. $parsedhtml.title shows correctly, guessing rest ok well…