importing Bills - character encoding

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hi everybody,

thanks for the feedback. Seems I hit something here actually. Feel a little
stupid to not having brought this up much earlier ...

>>>Does UTF-8 work? It's what GnuCash expects internally.
no, nothing works (tried 5-6 options)

>>>Tereque, ...  Ensure that the file you're importing is encoded in the
character set specified by your locale.
the only point where I can adjust anything about the encoding is when
saving the csv file in OpenOffice. I am on a US_english W7 system and by
default are offered a "Western Europe (Windows-1252/WinLatin1)". I guess
that is my locale?

When importing transactions from csv files I save the csv as UTF-8 and then
choose :Chinese SImplfied (GB18030) in the importing engine for
transactions. Choosing UTF here (which was the locigal choice as the source
file IS UTF-8 did never work)

>>> Can you please file a bug report at
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=GnuCash
ll try to do that bug report tomorrow

On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 10:51 PM, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:

>
> > 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
>
>