importing Bills - character encoding

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On Sat, Jan 2, 2016 at 1:43 AM, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:

> Try this work-around: Edit c:\Program Files
> (x86)\gnucash\etc\gnucash\environment with Notepad. Near the bottom change
> the line
>    # LANG=nl_BE
> to
>    LANG=en_US.UTF8
> save the file, start up GnuCash, and try the import again.
>
unfortunately that didn't change anything. I still get "面料" as
description after importing a bill with Chinese Characters


> But make sure that the CSV is really encoded in UTF-8. It doesn't make
> sense that the transaction CSVs would import correctly with
>
I am  using Apache OpenOffice 4.1.1 to generate (or 'save as' at times) csv
files. And I always choose UTF8 for encoding.