Powershell: Setting Encoding for Get-Content Pipeline

Question

I have a file saved as UCS-2 Little Endian I want to change the encoding so I ran the following code:

cat tmp.log -encoding UTF8 > new.log

Answer 1

If you are reading an XML file, here's an even better way that adapts to the encoding of your XML file:

$xml = New-Object -Typename XML
$xml.load('foo.xml')