Wrong encoding on PowerShell Invoke-WebRequest POST

Question

I\'m using Invoke-WebRequest POST method to send an text data. After sending the text in a wrong encoding.

Script:

$postData = \"žluťoučký kůň úpěl ď         


        

Answer 1

I had to do two things to solve the problem. Encode the body and add the charset to the header:

$body = [System.Text.Encoding]::UTF8.GetBytes($body);

$headers = @{
            "Content-Type"="application/json; charset=utf-8";
            "OData-MaxVersion"="4.0";
            "OData-Version"="4.0";
        };

Invoke-WebRequest -Uri "$($odataEndpoint)systemusers($userid)" -Method PATCH -Headers $headers -Body $body -UseDefaultCredentials

Answer 2

This worked for me:

$postData = "žluťoučký kůň úpěl ďábelské ódy"
Invoke-WebRequest -Uri 'http://www.example.com/' -Method Post -Body $postData 
 -ContentType "text/plain; charset=utf-8"

Adding the charset=utf-8 fixed my issue where the acute accent characters were getting converted to special symbols.