 <p>The way to resolve this issue is to force the file to use 8-bit encoding. You could run this PowerShell script to change the encoding of all .SQL files in the current directory and its subdirectories.</p> <pre><code>Get-ChildItem -Recurse *.sql | foreach { $FileName = $_.FullName; [System.Io.File]::ReadAllText($FileName) | Out-File -FilePath $FileName -Encoding UTF8; } </code></pre>