UTF-8 encoding not working

An empty scss stylesheet containing just this:

a:after { content: ' ›'; }

Compiles to this:

a:after { content: ' ÔÇ║'; }

So, not good. Even when I add @charset "utf-8"; to the top of my scss, it still outputs the same stuff. My scss really is saved as UTF-8, but without a BOM though (using Brackets as my editor, there’s no option for it, as far as I’m aware).

Escaping it:

a:after { content: ' \203a'; }

Outputs:

a:after { content: ' \203a'; }

Kind of expected really. But:

a:after { content: " #{'\203a'}"; }

Kind of a mess, but it outputs what I want:

a:after { content: " ›"; }

But I really want to be able to use non-ANSI characters straight in my scss files. It makes things much more readable. So this looks like a double-encoding bug that needs fixing, or the @charset directive in need of fixing.

I’m using Sass version 3.4.13, Gem system 2.4.6, Ruby 2.1.3p242 x64, Windows 7 x64.

[thany]

Update: Wow, it has to be in double quotes or it won’t work! This is not in the documentation, and doesn’t make sense since neither Sass nor CSS generally care about single or double quotes.

Any idea why this is the case?

/edit Not only that, but the charset declaration has to start at the very first byte of the file. Not even a comment may precede it.

[thany]

@nex3 that doesn’t help. Output for that one character is still content: ' ÔÇ║'; instead of content: ' ›';.

I’ve put @charset 'utf-8'; in the file where the character is, made 5000% sure it’s actually saved as utf-8, and I’ve even put the @charset declaration in every scss file. No juice.