Accented characters lost when calling Microsoft Graph from Powershell script

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Hi,&nbsp;I wrote a script to create, update or delete contacts in one of my Exchange contacts folder by using Invoke-RestMethod cmdlet to call Microsoft Graph API.The issue is that accented characters are replaced with the Unicode replacement character (a black diamond with a white question mark) in contacts properties where such accented characters should be displayed.&nbsp;For instance when updating jobTitle property with characters 'éçèà', I get four replacement characters as shown in the attached file.&nbsp;I tried with :- PowerShell ISE 5.1- PowerShell 7.0.3 terminal- VS Code 1.50.1 with Powershell Extension 2020.6.0- PowerShell within Azure Function&nbsp;Calling Microsoft Graph API with some other API specialized software is successful : the accented characters get displayed in the Exchange contacts properties.&nbsp;I'm a beginner in PowerShell scripting and with all aspects of using .Net functionalities.&nbsp;Thanks for your help.

farismalaeb · Accepted Answer

AlainKlein&nbsp;I did not work yet with MG, but did you try the followingBut I can refer you to similar casehttps://powershell.org/forums/topic/character-encoding-with-invoke-restmethod/Plus you can get more information about the encoding from here.https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/scripting/dev-cross-plat/vscode/understanding-file-encoding?view=powershell-7.1&nbsp;

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