Japanese Characters from OFX file

[Dominic Ashton]

2009/4/15 Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu>:
> 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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Derek,

Thanks for your reply. The file is UTF-8. I'm pretty sure of this
because when I select "UTF-8" when opening the file in open office,
the chars show up correctly. Also, if opening the file in gedit, then
selecting "save as", the current locale shows up as UTF-8.

Thanks,

Dominic