SQLCMD command is not able to insert accents I am trying to run sqlcmd.exe in order to setup a new database from command line. I am using SQL SERVER Express 2012 on Windows 7 64 bits.

Here's the command I use:

SQLCMD -S .\MSSQLSERVER08 -V 17 -E -i %~dp0\aqualogyDB.sql -o %~dp0\databaseCreationLog.log 


And here's a pieceof the sql file creation script:

    CREATE DATABASE aqualogy 
    COLLATE Modern_Spanish_CI_AS
    WITH TRUSTWORTHY ON, DB_CHAINING ON;
    GO
    use aqualogy
    GO
    CREATE TABLE [dbo].[BaseLayers] (
    [Code] nchar(100) NOT NULL ,
    [Geometry] nvarchar(MAX) NOT NULL ,
    [IsActive] bit NOT NULL DEFAULT ((1)) 
    )

    EXEC sp_updateextendedproperty @name = N'MS_Description', @value = N'Capas de     cartografía base de la aplicaicón. Consideramos en Galia Móvil la cartografía(...)'
, @level0type = 'SCHEMA', @level0name = N'dbo'
, @level1type = 'TABLE', @level1name = N'BaseLayers'


Well, please check that there are some accents on the words; which is the table's description . The database is created with no problems. 'Collate' is understood by the script, as you can see in the attached screenshot. Despite of this, accents are not properly shown when examining the table.

I'd really appreciate any help. Thank you very much.

[Edit]: Hi all. Changing the SQL file encoding using Notepad++ worked fine! Thank you very much for you help: I learned something interesting with this problem!
Another option, one which I've just learned, comes from the sqlcmd documentation. You need to set the codepage for sqlcmd to match that of the file encoding. In the case of UTF-8, the codepage is 65001 so you'd want:

SQLCMD -S .\MSSQLSERVER08 -V 17 -E -i %~dp0\aqualogyDB.sql -o %~dp0\databaseCreationLog.log 
-f 65001