Using PowerShell to write a file in UTF-8 without the BOM

Question

Out-File seems to force the BOM when using UTF-8:

$MyFile = Get-Content $MyPath
$MyFile | Out-File -Encoding \"UTF8\" $MyPath

Answer 1

Starting from version 6 powershell supports the UTF8NoBOM encoding both for set-content and out-file and even uses this as default encoding.

So in the above example it should simply be like this:

$MyFile | Out-File -Encoding UTF8NoBOM $MyPath