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

[John Ralls]

On Feb 4, 2014, at 10:56 PM, Brian Clarkson <clarkson at orthogonaldevices.com> wrote:

> 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.

Sounds like https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=703527 and https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=703527, which may be duplicates. If you want to have a go at fixing it, the code will be in src/import-export/ or src/import-export/ofx.

Setting up and using a development environment on Windows is a royal PITA. I recommend setting up a Linux VM, as that's much easier.

Regards,
John Ralls