File encoding problem - variable substitution

[sacco]

Hi,

I know similar topics have been discussed here few years ago but i don’t find any appropriate solution.
Im deploying on rhel 7 server. After variable substitution, my ISO-8859 file are converted to UTF-8.
I use “Detect from template”. When I disable “Substitute Variables in Files” encoding is preserved.

Im using Octopus v2018.5.6.

Thank You in advance for your response.

[garrett.dass]

Hi @sacco,

Thanks for reaching out to Octopus.

It looks like you’ve run into this issue here: Powershell files with en-dash and other non-ASCII characters fail after upgrade · Issue #4613 · OctopusDeploy/Issues · GitHub and most likely the workaround described here would be the best way to get you unblocked:

The workaround is to add a step to your projects deployment processes with the following bash script to remove the BOM
sed -i '1 s/^\xef\xbb\xbf//' /path/to/deployment/*.conf

Do you think this workaround would apply to your use case? Please let me know.

Regards,
Garrett