Does wmic really output UTF-8?

It appears it does (some form of unicode anyway), if you redirect its output to a file (or via a pipe): 

c:\test>wmic.exe process > junk

c:\test>u:head -c 200 junk
 ■C a p t i o n                             C o m m a n d L i n 
+e

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That first spludge(*) is the LE BOM 0xfffe. (It was a spludge when I c&p'd it!)

Probably utf-16le I think, but whatever it is, using -CS does seem to cause perl to work out what it is getting and treat it appropriately: 

c:\test>wmic.exe process | perl -CS -pe1 > junk

c:\test>u:head -c 200 junk
Caption              CommandLine

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Whether by accident or design, it is useful.

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In reply to Re^5: unpacking wmic command's unicode output by BrowserUk
in thread unpacking wmic command's unicode output by goibhniu

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