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

[Geert Janssens]

On Wednesday 05 February 2014 14:56:55 Brian Clarkson 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.
> 
> Kind regards,
> Brian

Hi Brian,

What version of GnuCash are you trying this with ? Some locale related 
issues were fixed in 2.6.1 but I don't remember if the import problems 
were amongst those.

Regards,

Geert