Description
Given the fact that PowerShell is moving to Unicode (see #4681, PowerShell/PowerShell-RFC#71 (comment), etc.), it might be a good idea to fix the help function for this particular case.
PowerShell/src/System.Management.Automation/engine/InitialSessionState.cs
Lines 4261 to 4264 in 5b5168d
Known cases where [Console]::OutputEncoding is set to Unicode:
- PowerShell is launched inside Visual Studio Code
- PowerShell is launched in a non-Windows environment (even Bash on Ubuntu on Windows)
[Console]::OutputEncodinghas been manually set to Unicode
Blocks #7233
A possible workaround is to install less for Windows and set $env:PAGER to less.exe, which supports UTF-8 properly, unlike the old more.com.