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>> AFAIK, the Win32_OperatingSystem caption is always ASCII.
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> I think I was wrong here. The "Caption" field is localized, so the wmic.exe OEM encoded output to a pipe isn't reliable.

Correct. And while "Windows" itself is never translated, the caption may 
include terms that are translated (e.g., IIRC, the extra names for 
point-of-sales versions).