[GNC] character encoding and CSV standards

[Patrick James]

Tom,

I have issues with importing double quotes, so I certainly understand the frustration. If you change all the backslashes in your sample CSV data to double quotes, you will see that there is a similar issue.


> On 06/06/2026 7:39 PM PDT Tom Teixeira <tjteixeira at earthlink.net> wrote:
> 
> And the problem I encountered is one of a failure to identify the values 
> in each field. The sequence \" in the CSV files I am downloaded have the 
> backslash (\) appearing as the last character in the description. I'm 
> not sure why, but my issue is simply that Gnucash does not find the 
> fields in these files the same way Excel, LibreOffice, Google Sheets and 
> Apple Numbers which all read this CSV file consistent with RFC 4180.
>