Determine the current text encoding of your Windows

$Enc = [System.Text.Encoding]::Default
Write-Host "Encoding name: " $Enc.EncodingName
Write-Host "=================================================="
Write-Host "Code page:     " $Enc.CodePage
Write-Host "Web name:      " $Enc.WebName
Write-Host "Header name:   " $Enc.HeaderName " (destined for e-mail applications)"
Write-Host "Body name:     " $Enc.BodyName " (destined for e-mail applications)"
Write-Host