PowerShell / PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer
Warn against unicode characters
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Issue - Enhancement
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- Dominant language
- C#
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Description
Summary of the new feature
When using the double quote in Chinese, PSSA should throw an error or warning.
Proposed technical implementation details (optional)
Three cases as follows:
Invoke-ScriptAnalyzer -ScriptDefinition '$a = "b“; Write-Output $a'
Invoke-ScriptAnalyzer -ScriptDefinition '$a = “b“; Write-Output $a'
Invoke-ScriptAnalyzer -ScriptDefinition '$a = “b"; Write-Output $a'
What is the latest version of PSScriptAnalyzer at the point of writing
v1.18.3
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Begin by running the three Invoke-ScriptAnalyzer examples in the issue and compare how PSScriptAnalyzer currently handles each quote combination. Trace the analyzer path that parses or reports these scripts, then add coverage for the intended warning or error behavior and verify all three cases.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- powershell
- Domain
- tooling
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100