az repos policy create can't read file

[kkilton]

I create a file manually and named if template.json
I did some token replacement and saved it using this command
Out-File -FilePath $templateFile -InputObject $updatedContents

Whatever output PS outputs is not recognized by az repos policy create --config - probably UTF-8

I changed it to ASCII encoding and it worked fine
Out-File -FilePath $templateFile -InputObject $updatedContents -Encoding ASCII

Command Name
az repos policy create Extension Name: azure-devops. Version: 0.26.0.

Errors:

The command failed with an unexpected error. Here is the traceback:
Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "D:\a\_work\1\s\build_scripts\windows\artifacts\cli\Lib\site-packages\knack/cli.py", line 233, in invoke
  File "D:\a\_work\1\s\build_scripts\windows\artifacts\cli\Lib\site-packages\azure/cli/core/commands/__init__.py", line 663, in execute
  File "D:\a\_work\1\s\build_scripts\windows\artifacts\cli\Lib\site-packages\azure/cli/core/commands/__init__.py", line 726, in _run_jobs_serially
  File "D:\a\_work\1\s\build_scripts\windows\artifacts\cli\Lib\site-packages\azure/cli/core/commands/__init__.py", line 718, in _run_job
  File "C:\Users\kkilton\.azure\cliextensions\azure-devops\azext_devops\dev\common\exception_handler.py", line 31, in azure_devops_exception_handler
    reraise(*sys.exc_info())
  File "D:\a\_work\1\s\build_scripts\windows\artifacts\cli\Lib\site-packages\six.py", line 719, in reraise
  File "D:\a\_work\1\s\build_scripts\windows\artifacts\cli\Lib\site-packages\azure/cli/core/commands/__init__.py", line 697, in _run_job
  File "D:\a\_work\1\s\build_scripts\windows\artifacts\cli\Lib\site-packages\azure/cli/core/commands/__init__.py", line 333, in __call__
  File "D:\a\_work\1\s\build_scripts\windows\artifacts\cli\Lib\site-packages\azure/cli/core/commands/command_operation.py", line 121, in handler
  File "C:\Users\kkilton\.azure\cliextensions\azure-devops\azext_devops\dev\repos\policy.py", line 75, in create_policy_configuration_file
    configuration = json.load(f)
  File "json\__init__.py", line 293, in load
  File "json\__init__.py", line 346, in loads
  File "json\decoder.py", line 337, in decode
  File "json\decoder.py", line 355, in raw_decode
json.decoder.JSONDecodeError: Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)

To Reproduce:

Steps to reproduce the behavior. Note that argument values have been redacted, as they may contain sensitive information.

• Put any pre-requisite steps here...
• az repos policy create --config {}

Expected Behavior

Notepad++ can read this file just fine and no comparison issues between the files, AZ CLI should be able to read the file.

Environment Summary

Windows-10-10.0.19045-SP0
Python 3.10.10
Installer: MSI

azure-cli 2.47.0 *

Extensions:
azure-devops 0.26.0

Dependencies:
msal 1.20.0
azure-mgmt-resource 22.0.0

Additional Context