Powershell '>' operator, change encoding?

Question

Is there a way to change the default encoding of the > operator in powershell? I'd like it to output as ANSI as UTF-8 for my requirements.txt:

pip freeze > requirements.txt

Answer 1

pip freeze | Out-File -Encoding UTF8 requirements.txt

or you can try

pip freeze > iconv -f UTF-8 -t ISO-8859-1 in.txt > out.txt

you can read about iconv