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I have old .prc files (SQL Server Stored Procedures) which have exported from SQL Server 2000. Now when I try to open a .prc file using SSMS 2008, I get a bunch of chinese characters and other odd characters. I tried a solution found here, but it did not help.
Can you open the files in a regular text editor, e.g. Notepad or something??
As far as I remember, the SQL Server 2000 tools used to use ANSI / ISO-8869-1 encoding for their files, while newer Mgmt Studio version expect UTF-8 or UTF-16.
So my suggestion would be to open those *.PRC files in an editor and store them as *.SQL files using UTF-8 encoding. After that you should be able to open them in SSMS 2008 without problems.