diff --git a/lib/winrm-elevated/scripts/elevated_shell.ps1 b/lib/winrm-elevated/scripts/elevated_shell.ps1
index cd95618..d297879 100644
--- a/lib/winrm-elevated/scripts/elevated_shell.ps1
+++ b/lib/winrm-elevated/scripts/elevated_shell.ps1
@@ -88,14 +88,28 @@ try {
 
 function SlurpOutput($file, $cur_line, $out_type) {
   if (Test-Path $file) {
-    get-content $file | Select-Object -skip $cur_line | ForEach-Object {
-      $cur_line += 1
-      if ($out_type -eq 'err') {
-        $host.ui.WriteErrorLine("$_")
-      } else {
-        $host.ui.WriteLine("$_")
+    $fs = New-Object -TypeName System.IO.FileStream -ArgumentList @(
+      $file,
+      [system.io.filemode]::Open,
+      [System.io.FileAccess]::Read,
+      [System.IO.FileShare]::ReadWrite
+    )
+    try {
+      $enc = [System.Text.Encoding]::GetEncoding($Host.CurrentCulture.TextInfo.OEMCodePage)
+      $bytes = [System.Byte[]]::CreateInstance([System.Byte], $fs.Length)
+      if ($fs.Read($bytes, 0, $fs.Length) -gt 0) {
+        $text = $enc.GetString($bytes)
+        $text.TrimEnd("`n").TrimEnd("`r").Split(@("`r`n", "`n"), [StringSplitOptions]::None) | Select-Object -skip $cur_line | ForEach-Object {
+          $cur_line += 1
+          if ($out_type -eq 'err') {
+            $host.ui.WriteErrorLine("$_")
+          } else {
+            $host.ui.WriteLine("$_")
+          }
+        }
       }
     }
+    finally { $fs.Close() }
   }
   return $cur_line
 }
diff --git a/lib/winrm/shells/elevated.rb b/lib/winrm/shells/elevated.rb
index 29aa780..bac7537 100644
--- a/lib/winrm/shells/elevated.rb
+++ b/lib/winrm/shells/elevated.rb
@@ -73,7 +73,9 @@ def close
 
       def upload_elevated_shell_script(script_text)
         elevated_shell_path = 'c:/windows/temp/winrm-elevated-shell-' + SecureRandom.uuid + '.ps1'
-        script_text_with_exit = "#{script_text}\r\n$Host.SetShouldExit($LASTEXITCODE)"
+        # Prepend the content of the file with an UTF-8 BOM for Windows to read it as such instead of the default
+        # Windows-XXXX encoding, and convert script_text accordingly if needed.
+        script_text_with_exit = "\uFEFF#{script_text.encode(Encoding::UTF_8)}\r\n$Host.SetShouldExit($LASTEXITCODE)"
         @winrm_file_transporter.upload(StringIO.new(script_text_with_exit), elevated_shell_path)
         elevated_shell_path
       end
diff --git a/spec/powershell_elevated_spec.rb b/spec/powershell_elevated_spec.rb
index 85094fd..b613a2b 100644
--- a/spec/powershell_elevated_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/powershell_elevated_spec.rb
@@ -54,6 +54,22 @@
     it { should match(/Windows IP Configuration/) }
   end
 
+  describe 'special characters' do
+    subject(:output) { elevated_shell.run("echo \"#{text}\"") }
+    # Sample text using more than ASCII, but still compatible with occidental OEM encodings.
+    let(:text) do
+      'Dès Noël, où un zéphyr haï me vêt de glaçons würmiens, je dîne d’exquis rôtis de bœuf au kir, ' \
+      'à l’aÿ d’âge mûr, &cætera.'
+    end
+
+    it { should have_exit_code 0 }
+    it 'outputs a transliterated version of the original string' do
+      expect(output.stdout).to eq "Dès Noël, où un zéphyr haï me vêt de glaçons würmiens, je dîne d'exquis " \
+                                  "rôtis de bouf au kir, à l'aÿ d'âge mûr, &cætera.\r\n"
+    end
+    it { should have_no_stderr }
+  end
+
   describe 'capturing output from Write-Host and Write-Error' do
     subject(:output) do
       script = <<-COMMAND