[GNC] Importing Accounts with non-English Characters

viking viking2ev at san.rr.com
Tue Mar 16 04:09:27 EDT 2021


Jim DeLaHunt wrote
> On 2021-03-15 22:39, viking wrote:
> 
>> There does nto appear to be an option in GnuCash to select UTF-8 when
>> importing?
> 
> According to the GnuCash Help documentation, section 6.16.5. "Import 
> CSV" (https://www.gnucash.org/viewdoc.phtml?rev=4&lang=C&doc=help 
> <https://www.gnucash.org/viewdoc.phtml?rev=4&lang=C&doc=help>),
> the CSV 
> importer has a "CSV Import Preview" pane which includes an "Encoding". 
> Set this to UTF-8.
> 
> If what you author as Startvärde gets imported as Startvärde, that 
> sounds like your CSV Import Preview setting for Encoding is actually 
> ISO8859/1 or something like that.
> 
> Best regards,
>       —Jim DeLaHunt
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________

When I import *Transactions* from a CVS file, I can indeed set the encoding
to UTF-8.
However, there is no such option when importing *Accounts*.  
Thus, importing Accounts with non-English characters gets "corrupted" .




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