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I've written a script which does a benchmark on the time taken to run any command that I input, such as ping google.com -n 1 and I'm having trouble with the output.

When I run the code in an interactive shell, it is fine, but when I run it as a powershell .ps1 script, it puts out chinese characters like this:

〱䘠扥ㄠ㨰㈵瀉湩⁧潧杯敬挮浯ⴠऱ㌲⸹ㄷ㔳獭਍

That is the "result" from ping google.com -n 1

Needless to say, I'm a little confused as to why it is doing this...

Any ideas?

This is my code:

$command = Read-Host "Enter command"

"DateTime`tCommand`tTime Taken" | Out-file "$($command -replace '[^A-Za-z]','').csv"

While (1) {

    $time = date -f "dd MMM HH:mm"

    $cmdtime = [string](
    Measure-Command {iex $command}
    ).TotalMilliseconds + "ms"

   "$($time)`t$($command)`t$($cmdtime)" | Out-File "$($command -replace '[^A-Za-z]','').csv" -a

   Sleep 60;
}
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Reason for this happening is because the first Out-File did not have the -Encoding ASCII parameter set, resulting in a file being created with a Non-ASCII encoding!

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