Ruby Sass Compatibility Error IBM857 and UTF-8 [duplicate] - css

While trying to use grunt to convert my sass files into normal css files i get the warning:
Warning: Encoding::CompabilityError: incompatible character encodings: UTF-8 and CP850.
However when I run sass calling the file(s) everything works as it should even though no encoding is specified by me. My Gruntfile.js looks like this:
[...]
sass: {
main: {
files: {
'css/theme/default.css': 'css/theme/source/default.scss',
'css/theme/beige.css': 'css/theme/source/beige.scss',
'css/theme/night.css': 'css/theme/source/night.scss',
'css/theme/serif.css': 'css/theme/source/serif.scss',
'css/theme/simple.css': 'css/theme/source/simple.scss',
'css/theme/sky.css': 'css/theme/source/sky.scss',
'css/theme/moon.css': 'css/theme/source/moon.scss',
'css/theme/solarized.css': 'css/theme/source/solarized.scss',
}
}
}
[...]
which is a part of the Gruntfile.js I forked from the reveal.js on GitHub. I took a look at the grunt-contrib-sass on GitHub and tried to find the option to change the encoding manualy. However it apears that there is none (maybe I just overlooked it?).
I think a keypart of the problem is that I am using Windows 8 and not any Unix based OS.
So my question is:
How do i get rid of this warning? Or how do i fix the code to work properly?
Any help is appreciated.

I had this error when trying to use the command:
sass --watch global.scss:global.css --style compressed
And the cause was the most stupid cause ever... I had this folder: E:\Dropbox[Websites][External] Fundación Global\css and I run the command in there, and SASS returned this same error: Warning: Encoding::CompabilityError: incompatible character encodings: UTF-8 and CP850.
I just needed to take out the ó from the folder's path!
That simple and silly! Just changed this: ...Fundación Global\css for this ...Fundacion Global\css and I have SASS watching with no issues again.

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