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    Set the default en coding to UTF-8 in powershell. As seen in http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2006/12/11/outputencoding-to-the-rescue.aspx
  
        
  
    
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  | $OutputEncoding = New-Object -typename System.Text.UTF8Encoding | |
| [Console]::OutputEncoding = New-Object -typename System.Text.UTF8Encoding | 
You can also add [Console]::OutputEncoding = [Text.UTF8Encoding]::UTF8 to the start of your powershell profile script.
Notepad $profile
If the file doesn't exist, create one
add [Console]::OutputEncoding = [Text.UTF8Encoding]::UTF8 as the first line of the file`
save
restart powershell
  
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Ended up using
$PSDefaultParameterValues['*:Encoding'] = 'utf8'to set utf-8 to "to change the default encoding for all cmdlets that have the Encoding parameter". Also put it in the$profilefile for persistence.