Pandoc highlighting theme - pandoc

Question

I'm trying to generate a highlighting theme for my site created with pandoc framework.
I followed this guide : guide
I create my theme this way:
pandoc --print-highlight-style breezedark > my_style.theme
and then I add it to my command like this:
pandoc ..\articles\$_
-f markdown
-t html --template=..\template\article.html
--defaults=..\defaults\params_$($_.BaseName).yaml
--highlight-style my_style.theme <-------------------
--output ..\articles\$($_.BaseName).html
The problem is that when I go to fill it out, I get this error back, and the code doesn't get colored:
Could not read highlighting theme my_style.theme
What's the problem?
EDIT:
i try adding this:
--highlight-style=breezedark
but my code doesn't get colored in html view..
i try this:
```bash
java -version
```
~~~bash
java -version
~~~
This is the source code of html:
<div class="sourceCode" id="cb2">
<pre class="sourceCode bash">
<code class="sourceCode bash">
<span id="cb2-1">
<span class="ex">java</span> -version</span>
</code>
</pre>
</div>
<div class="sourceCode" id="cb3">
<pre class="sourceCode python">
<code class="sourceCode python">
<span id="cb3-1">
<span class="bu">print</span>(<span class="st">"Hello, world!"</span>)
</span>
</code>
</pre>
</div>

Answer 1

The reason is the encoding of file. By default, the theme file output by pandoc is UTF-16 LE (seen from vscode). Saving the file with encoding UTF-8 will help.

Answer 2

I encountered the same problem. I wrote color names in the theme file such as chartreuse and crimson. This was the reason of the failure: one has to enter the hex codes of the colors.