php how to output arabic characters on windows using powershell

I have the below PHP script <?php header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8'); $file = "//192.168.10.206/wwwroot/SABIS CORPORATE/PrepList/Documents/41/1516 Level I Arabic Basic Questions and Answers T1 الأسلوب الخبري.pdf"; echo $file; ?> and the result is always PS C:\Users\aaoun> php -q c:\Users\aaoun\Desktop\Test-AAA.php //192.168.10.206/wwwroot/SABIS CORPORATE/PrepList/Documents/41/1516 Level I Arabic Basic Questions and Answers T1 ╪د┘╪ث ╪│┘┘ê╪ذ ╪د┘╪«╪ذ╪▒┘è.pdf PS C:\Users\aaoun> I tried **UT8 encoding** iconv("unicode", "utf-8", $file); iconv("Latin1_General_CI_AS","utf-8",$file); iconv("Arabic_CI_AS","utf-8",$file); base64_encode($file); utf8_encode($file); base64_decode($file); utf8_decode($file); iconv('WINDOWS-1256', 'UTF-8', $file); iconv('cp1256', 'UTF-8', $file); Nothing seems to work, I keep getting wrong text I need to get the text to check if the file exists ...