Importing OFX files with Japanese characters (UTF-8) broken?

[Brian Clarkson]

Hi All

I'm just starting out with gnucash and liking it a lot. However there 
has been one problem. One of my bank accounts is in Japan and the bank 
provides OFX files with Japanese characters (namely, in the description 
field) that are UTF-8 encoded. It is pretty clear to me that as a 
program, gnucash supports Japanese characters via unicode when doing 
manual entry, however it seems the 'Generic import transaction matcher' 
fails to handle UTF-8.

Here is the header from my OFX file:

OFXHEADER:100
DATA:OFXSGML
VERSION:102
SECURITY:NONE
ENCODING:UTF-8
CHARSET:CSUNICODE
COMPRESSION:NONE
OLDFILEUID:NONE
NEWFILEUID:NONE

Does anyone have any ideas how I can import transactions with Japanese 
characters correctly? Should I go to the dev list for this? I am even 
willing to go into the codebase to solve this but I would need help 
compiling on Windows.

Kind regards,
Brian

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