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Issues with Nordic Characters

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Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
azure, github-actions, sql, typescript
Domain
ci-cd, database

Research direction

Start by reproducing the Azure/sql-action@v1 workflow with an sql-file containing ÅÆØ characters, then inspect the action's handling of that file. Done means the deployed SQL preserves Nordic characters as it does when run manually in SQL Server Management Studio.

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Description

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Hi !
My action looks like this:

    - name: Deploy Post-script Database 
      uses: Azure/sql-action@v1
      with: 
        server-name: ${{steps.ServerName}}
        connection-string: ${{...sql-pipelineconfig-connectionstring}}
        sql-file: ${{ github.workspace }}\Path\to\script\file.sql

The issue I am facing is that nordic characters - ÅÆØ - are replaced by garbage symbols, E.g:
'Kårstø' becomes 'KÃ…RSTØ'

The Collation is set correctly on the Azure SQL database, and we can run the script manually in in SQL Server Management Studio to get the correct output.

Tried a couple of different things, among others verifying database collation, column types, that the generated files have the correct UTF encoding.
The last thing I can think of is that it is possibly an issue with the action

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TypeScript
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Merged PRs (30d)
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