Why does PowerShell redirection >> change the formatting of the text content?

Question

I want to use the redirect append >> or write > to write to a txt file, but when I do, I receive a weird format "\\x00a\\x00p..

Answer 1

>> and > redirects console output. So i assume that would also include some weird characters sometimes. >> and > are more closely related to the Out-File cmdlet.

add-content does not forward console output to a file, It only writes the values you provide it (e.g. a variable or pipeline object)

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