Japanese Characters from OFX file

[Derek Atkins]

Dominic Ashton <dominic.ashton at gmail.com> writes:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I am trying to import an OFX file from my bank in Japan, and the
> document obviously contains Japanese characters, which are shown up as
> being garbled in the import wizard.
>
> Does GNU cash support non english char sets?

It does, however the question is /which/ char set is it.  Is it
UTF8?  ISO?  What is the OFX file's charset?

GnuCash internally uses UTF8.  However I think the OFX importer is
ISO.  (But I'm not 100% sure of that).

Note that we have similar issues with QIF import...

> Thanks,
>
>
> Dominic

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-derek

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