Replace text in google preferences file - json

Question

Our organisation is moving to chrome as the default browser.
The problem is, its already on most of the fleet and custom language settings are set to en-US. I need some way to modify it to be en-AU.
I initially used fart.exe and replaced all instances of en-US with en-AU but when chrome re-launched it didnt like the format.
What i am basically trying to do is replace:
"intl":{"accept_languages":"en-US,en-AU,en-GB,en","selected_languages":"en-US,en-AU,en-GB,en"}
with
"intl":{"accept_languages":"en-AU","selected_languages":"en-AU"}
The problem is the text after "accept_languages": could be any combination of country locale settings.
I'm stumped. Could anyone point me in the right direction?

Answer 1

There is no need for regex in this case, you can use ConvertFrom-Json to update it:
$json = #'
{
"intl":{
"accept_languages":"en-US,en-AU,en-GB,en",
"selected_languages":"en-US,en-AU,en-GB,en"
}
}
'# | ConvertFrom-Json
$json.intl.'accept_languages' = 'en-AU'
$json.intl.'selected_languages' = 'en-AU'
$json | ConvertTo-Json | Out-File path\to\json.json -Encondig utf8
In the example above, $json | ConvertTo-Json would yield a Json like this one:
{
"intl": {
"accept_languages": "en-AU",
"selected_languages": "en-AU"
}
}
Note, the default encoding of the file seems to be ANSI, in this case -Encondig Default should work. Thanks #Theo.