cscript.exe doesn't read unicode script (UTF-8)

Question

simply save the following in notepad using UTF-8

msgbox "你好"

double click or run it from command line

D:\>cscript.exe /u test-unicode.vbs
Microsoft (R) Windows Script Host Version 5.812
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

D:\test-unicode.vbs(1, 1) Microsoft VBScript compilation error: Invalid characte
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is there any way to run the unicode script in Windows Script Host?

Answer 1

cscript.exe can run scripts saved using [Unicode] (seems UTF-16).