Update the default/acceptable values for Encoding parameter in v6.0 #2000
Description
Issue Details
According to PowerShell/PowerShell#5080, the default/acceptable values for Encoding parameter has been changed since v6.0. But the change is not documented (e.g. Out-File -Encoding and Set/Add-Content).
The followings are the list of cmdlets which have Encoding parameter to be updated:
PS> $PSVersionTable
Name Value
---- -----
PSVersion 6.0.0-rc.2
PSEdition Core
GitCommitId v6.0.0-rc.2
OS Microsoft Windows 10.0.16299
Platform Win32NT
PSCompatibleVersions {1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0...}
PSRemotingProtocolVersion 2.3
SerializationVersion 1.1.0.1
WSManStackVersion 3.0
PS> Get-Command | Where-Object { $_.Parameters.Keys -contains 'Encoding' }
CommandType Name Version Source
----------- ---- ------- ------
Cmdlet Add-Content 3.1.0.0 Microsoft.PowerShell.Management
Cmdlet Export-Clixml 3.1.0.0 Microsoft.PowerShell.Utility
Cmdlet Export-Csv 3.1.0.0 Microsoft.PowerShell.Utility
Cmdlet Export-PSSession 3.1.0.0 Microsoft.PowerShell.Utility
Cmdlet Format-Hex 3.1.0.0 Microsoft.PowerShell.Utility
Cmdlet Get-Content 3.1.0.0 Microsoft.PowerShell.Management
Cmdlet Import-Csv 3.1.0.0 Microsoft.PowerShell.Utility
Cmdlet Out-File 3.1.0.0 Microsoft.PowerShell.Utility
Cmdlet Select-String 3.1.0.0 Microsoft.PowerShell.Utility
Cmdlet Send-MailMessage 3.1.0.0 Microsoft.PowerShell.Utility
Cmdlet Set-Content 3.1.0.0 Microsoft.PowerShell.ManagementVersion(s) of document impacted
- Impacts 6 document
- Impacts 5.1 document
- Impacts 5.0 document
- Impacts 4.0 document
- Impacts 3.0 document
Reason(s) for not selecting all version of documents
- The documented feature was introduced in selected version of PowerShell
- This issue only shows up in selected version of the document