API Post with swedish characters in body

PowerShell Universal
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  • Product: PowerShell Universal
  • Version: 2.8.0

I have an API Endpoint where I wan’t to post swedish characters like åäö.
The problem is that the endpoint interprets the characters wrong.

PSU
New-PSUEndpoint -Url “/BodyTest” -Method “POST” -Endpoint {
Param ( $Text )
Add-Content C:\Temp\PSUlog.txt “Text = $Text”
@{
“PSVersion” = $($PSVersionTable.PSVersion.ToString())
“Body” = $Text
}
} -ErrorAction “Stop” -Timeout 0

VSCode
$Body = @{
“Text” = “Testing text with swedish characters - åäö”
} | ConvertTo-Json
Invoke-RestMethod -Uri “http://localhost:5000/BodyTest” -Body $Body -Method “Post” -ContentType “application/json”

Outcome
PSVersion Body

7.1.5 Testing text with swedish characters - ���

The logfile that is written locally says
Text = Testing text with swedish characters - ���

2

I think I found a solution. This one did the trick
$Body = [System.Text.Encoding]::UTF8.GetBytes($Body)

PS 5.1 Client
The logfile output shows up correct but the output in the terminal still shows wrong type of characters.

PS 72.1
The output and the logfile show the correct characters

3

Hello I don’t know if it helps, but I always call the api with the parameters -ContentType ‘application/json;charset=utf-8’ to prevent french special chars to be changed by wrong chars in the result.

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