How to pipe the output of a command to a file without powershell changing the encoding?

Question

I want to pipe the output of a command to a file:

PS C:\\Temp> create-png > binary.png

I noticed that Powershell changes the encoding

Answer 1

According to this well written blog article

When using curl with PowerShell, never, never redirect to file with >. Always use the –o or –out switch. If you need to stream the output of curl to another utility (say gpg) then you need to sub-shell into cmd for the binary streaming or use temporary files.