diff --git a/assets/cship-statusline.ps1 b/assets/cship-statusline.ps1
index 727253f..19f56e0 100644
--- a/assets/cship-statusline.ps1
+++ b/assets/cship-statusline.ps1
@@ -36,7 +36,13 @@ $render = [System.Text.RegularExpressions.MatchEvaluator]{
     elseif ($pct -ge 40) { $color = '33' }
     else                 { $color = '38;2;125;207;255' }
 
-    if ($type -eq '5') { $label = '⏳ 5h' } else { $label = '📅 7d' }
+    # Emoji are built from codepoints (not string literals) so the label renders
+    # correctly regardless of how this .ps1 is read from disk. Windows PowerShell
+    # 5.1 decodes a BOM-less script as the ANSI codepage, which would turn literal
+    # UTF-8 emoji bytes into mojibake (e.g. ⏳ -> â³, 📅 -> 📅).
+    $hourglass = [char]0x23F3                       # ⏳ (BMP)
+    $calendar  = [char]::ConvertFromUtf32(0x1F4C5)  # 📅 (astral, needs surrogate pair)
+    if ($type -eq '5') { $label = "$hourglass 5h" } else { $label = "$calendar 7d" }
     $pctTxt   = '{0:0}%' -f $pct
     $resetTxt = if ([string]::IsNullOrWhiteSpace($reset)) { '' } else { " ($reset)" }