diff --git a/lib/libcurl.rc b/lib/libcurl.rc
index c1efbadc6..3316fba19 100644
--- a/lib/libcurl.rc
+++ b/lib/libcurl.rc
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
  *                            | (__| |_| |  _ <| |___
  *                             \___|\___/|_| \_\_____|
  *
- * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2016, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
+ * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2017, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
  *
  * This software is licensed as described in the file COPYING, which
  * you should have received as part of this distribution. The terms
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ BEGIN
       VALUE "OriginalFilename", "libcurl.dll\0"
       VALUE "ProductName",      "The curl library\0"
       VALUE "ProductVersion",   LIBCURL_VERSION "\0"
-      VALUE "LegalCopyright",   "© " LIBCURL_COPYRIGHT "\0"
+      VALUE "LegalCopyright",   "\xa9 " LIBCURL_COPYRIGHT "\0"  /* a9: Copyright symbol */
       VALUE "License",          "https://curl.haxx.se/docs/copyright.html\0"
     END
   END
diff --git a/src/curl.rc b/src/curl.rc
index 3a2c3a0fb..5f49d2236 100644
--- a/src/curl.rc
+++ b/src/curl.rc
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
  *                            | (__| |_| |  _ <| |___
  *                             \___|\___/|_| \_\_____|
  *
- * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2016, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
+ * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2017, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
  *
  * This software is licensed as described in the file COPYING, which
  * you should have received as part of this distribution. The terms
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ BEGIN
       VALUE "OriginalFilename", "curl.exe\0"
       VALUE "ProductName",      "The curl executable\0"
       VALUE "ProductVersion",   CURL_VERSION "\0"
-      VALUE "LegalCopyright",   "© " CURL_COPYRIGHT "\0"
+      VALUE "LegalCopyright",   "\xa9 " CURL_COPYRIGHT "\0"  /* a9: Copyright symbol */
       VALUE "License",          "https://curl.haxx.se/docs/copyright.html\0"
     END
   END