Problem debugging function with a string parameter to which you send swedish characters in the string

[johlju]

A normal function:

function Get-Something
{   [CmdletBinding()]
    Param(
        [Parameter(Mandatory=$true,Position=0)]        
        [ValidateNotNullOrEmpty()]       
        [string]$Title
    )

    Write-Verbose $Title    
}

Sending a string with Swedish characters gets a string that is corrupt.
Get-Something -Title "Söder Ögon Åder Råd Rädd" -Verbose

This call doesn't work either since it parses the string wrong.
Get-Something -Title "Ängar" -Verbose

[rkeithhill]

What file encoding does VSCode indicate for that file? It should be in the status bar on the right side. And what version of VSCode and the PowerShell extension are you on?

[johlju]

File encoding: UTF-8
VSCode version: 0.10.8
PowerShell extension version: 0.4.1

Also tested on the VSCode Insider version: 0.10.10-insider
Used the same version of PowerShell extension on the Insider version.

[daviwil]

Interesting, I just tried to reproduce this and it works fine for me:

This is with the shipped 0.10.8 and 0.4.1 versions of VS Code and the PowerShell extension, respectively.

Can you try to reproduce this issue again and then send the contents of the following file to [email protected]:

c:\Users\<yourusername>\.vscode\extensions\ms-vscode.PowerShell\bin\DebugAdapter.log

[johlju]

I have sent the requested information.

[johlju]

This problem still exists in the 1.3.1 version. But I now saw that in the Output pane (when runnig with F8) the problem does not exist. So it seems that the problem are only shown in the debug console. Probably because Output uses PowerShell terminal i guess (?).

[johlju]

OK! Found that when the file has encoding UTF-8 this problem occurs. When the Encoding is UTF-8 with BOM or UTF-16 LE this problem does not occur (only tried with those three encodings).
Below screenshot is from the running the code with file encoding UTF-16 LE.

[daviwil]

Weird! Not sure why it would work with UTF-16 and not with UTF-8. Thanks for the update! We'll keep looking into this.

[lw-schick]

It would be nice if the plugin would warn when I start writing special chars (f.e. äöü) with UTF8.
As I know it PowerShell does UTF8 only support with BOM. So it would be nice if the plugin could give me a hint here...

[johlju]

This isn't a problem anymore. I can't reproduce any longer. I guess this started working when we got the PowerShell Integration Console. I forgot about this, and I haven't used Swedish strings in a while so haven't seen it got fixed. 😄