Webcmdlets Encoding.RegisterProvider(CodePagesEncodingProvider.Instance) #18711
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PR Summary
Fix support for exotic text encodings in Webcmdlets
(I need some advice on the best place to add
Encoding.RegisterProvider(CodePagesEncodingProvider.Instance))PR Context
Anytime we use
Encoding.GetEncoding()we have to useEncoding.RegisterProvider(CodePagesEncodingProvider.Instance)to account for all the exotic charsets (at the moment we consider only: ASCII, ISO-8859-1, UTF-7, UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32)Fixes #18677
Test:
Invoke-WebRequest "https://www.ukrlib.com.ua/"(This website uses the windows-1251 encoding, it was not supported even if it was correctly identified by the
s_metaexpRegex inStreamHelper.cs)https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.text.codepagesencodingprovider?source=recommendations&view=net-7.0