diff --git a/.gitea/workflows/release.yaml b/.gitea/workflows/release.yaml
index 2b6ecbe..7318ec7 100644
--- a/.gitea/workflows/release.yaml
+++ b/.gitea/workflows/release.yaml
@@ -23,15 +23,19 @@ jobs:
           $version = "${{ gitea.ref_name }}".TrimStart("v")
           Write-Host "Setting version to: $version"
 
-          # Update csproj
+          # Update csproj (preserve UTF-8 BOM encoding)
           $csprojPath = "DellMonitorControl/DellMonitorControl.csproj"
-          (Get-Content $csprojPath) -replace '<Version>.*</Version>', "<Version>$version</Version>" | Set-Content $csprojPath
-          (Get-Content $csprojPath) -replace '<AssemblyVersion>.*</AssemblyVersion>', "<AssemblyVersion>$version.0</AssemblyVersion>" | Set-Content $csprojPath
-          (Get-Content $csprojPath) -replace '<FileVersion>.*</FileVersion>', "<FileVersion>$version.0</FileVersion>" | Set-Content $csprojPath
+          $content = [System.IO.File]::ReadAllText($csprojPath)
+          $content = $content -replace '<Version>.*</Version>', "<Version>$version</Version>"
+          $content = $content -replace '<AssemblyVersion>.*</AssemblyVersion>', "<AssemblyVersion>$version.0</AssemblyVersion>"
+          $content = $content -replace '<FileVersion>.*</FileVersion>', "<FileVersion>$version.0</FileVersion>"
+          [System.IO.File]::WriteAllText($csprojPath, $content, [System.Text.UTF8Encoding]::new($true))
 
           # Update ISS
           $issPath = "DellMonitorControl/MonitorControl.iss"
-          (Get-Content $issPath) -replace '#define MyAppVersion ".*"', "#define MyAppVersion `"$version`"" | Set-Content $issPath
+          $issContent = [System.IO.File]::ReadAllText($issPath)
+          $issContent = $issContent -replace '#define MyAppVersion ".*"', "#define MyAppVersion `"$version`""
+          [System.IO.File]::WriteAllText($issPath, $issContent, [System.Text.UTF8Encoding]::new($true))
 
       - name: Restore dependencies
         run: dotnet restore