NUL-byte between every other character in output

Question

I\'m using Ruby to read and then print a file to stdout, redirecting the output to a file in Windows PowerShell.

However, when I inspect the files, I get this for th

Answer 1

In PowerShell > is effectively the same as | Out-File and Out-File defaults to Unicode encoding. Try this instead of using >:

... | Out-File outputfile -encoding ASCII