importing Bills - character encoding

[John Ralls]

> On Dec 28, 2015, at 4:59 AM, __ <tereque at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> the feature of importing Bills and invoices from csv files is a great
> improvement for my little world as it enables other people then just me to
> prepare such documents (which is a huge improvement in the workflow if you
> are not only working just by yourself).
> However being located in China (and therefore dealing with Chinese
> characters at times) I face a big obstacle with this unfortunately. Chines
> characters just won't encode right and only display as hieroglyphs after
> importing.
> 
> It seems that (due to whatever reason) the importing engine is different
> for Bills/Invoices then for importing transactions. While you can choose
> and tweak character encoding in all directions for the transactions import
> there is nothing of that kind when importing Bills/Invoices. Am I just not
> getting something obvious here maybe? Has anybody solved that issue?
> 
> I tried to play a little with the character encoding while saving the csv
> files in OpenOffice but that has only resulted in different hieroglyphs in
> GC depending on the encoding chosen for the csv file

Does UTF-8 work? It's what GnuCash expects internally.

Regards,
John Ralls