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Andrew
Andrew

Reputation: 43

Dectecting Umlauts in Powershell with -eq or -ne

I am simply trying to detect Domänen-Benutzer in my powershell script so I can ignore it.

I figured I can simply run a not equals if statement so I can ignore it. However this not working. I can detect everything else with this statement but I am pretty sure it is the ä that is screwing me over. I have had issues previosuly with powershell and umlauts. I can't figure out how to get the -eq or -ne statement to accept encoding though.

Simple Code:

 $groups = Get-Content "EntferntGruppen.txt" -Encoding UTF8
$string = "Domänen-Benutzer"
foreach ($group in $groups){
    if ($group -eq $string) {
        $group
      }else{
          "nah"
      }
}

I would like to add I have tried -Encoding Unicode, UTF7, UTF32, Default I have also originally didn't bother with the $string variable and simply had if($group -eq "Domänen-Benutzer") which also failed.

If someone could educate me on how to deal with umlauts that would be great!

At the request of @Olaf here are some inputs from the EntferntGruppen.txt, these are generated on the fly from an AD user. 

Domänen-Benutzer
gl_SekretariatDUS
gl_ZeusUser
gl_LexwareUserSXF
gl_WEST_InternetUser
JederDUS

Upvotes: 0

Views: 76

Answers (1)

wasif
wasif

Reputation: 15518

You can use the unicode 0x00E4 code here:

$string = "Dom$([char]0x00E4)nen-Benutzer"

Upvotes: 1

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