(PowerShell) StringBuilder Encode Charset

Demonstrates the importance of the charset argument when encoding/decoding.

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Add-Type -Path "C:\chilkat\ChilkatDotNet47-x64\ChilkatDotNet47.dll"

$s = "é é é"

$sb = New-Object Chilkat.StringBuilder

$sb.Append($s)
$sb.EntityDecode()

# The string now contains: "é é é"
$($sb.GetAsString())

# If encoded to hex using the iso-8859-1 charset, 
# each é char is represented in 1 byte.
# Output: E920E920E9
$($sb.GetEncoded("hex","iso-8859-1"))

# If encoded to hex using the utf-8 charset, 
# each é char is represented in 2 bytes.
# Output: C3A920C3A920C3A9
$($sb.GetEncoded("hex","utf-8"))

# Here's utf-16
# Output: E9002000E9002000E900
$($sb.GetEncoded("hex","utf-16"))

# utf-32
# Output: E900000020000000E900000020000000E9000000
$($sb.GetEncoded("hex","utf-32"))