Using PowerShell to write a file in UTF-8 without the BOM

The proper way as of now is to use a solution recommended by @Roman Kuzmin in comments to @M. Dudley answer:

[IO.File]::WriteAllLines($filename, $content)

(I've also shortened it a bit by stripping unnecessary System namespace clarification - it will be substituted automatically by default.)

I figured this wouldn't be UTF, but I just found a pretty simple solution that seems to work...

Get-Content path/to/file.ext | out-file -encoding ASCII targetFile.ext

For me this results in a utf-8 without bom file regardless of the source format.

Using .NET's UTF8Encoding class and passing $False to the constructor seems to work:

$MyRawString = Get-Content -Raw $MyPath
$Utf8NoBomEncoding = New-Object System.Text.UTF8Encoding $False
[System.IO.File]::WriteAllLines($MyPath, $MyRawString, $Utf8NoBomEncoding)