Please describe the problem:
In Windows 2000 (using character sets ISO-8859-1 or windows-1252), the result of importing a QIF file shows that all non-ASCII characters in text zones such as Description have been physically eliminated. This is not a question of non-display. 


Steps to reproduce:
1. install GnuCash for Windows to use ISO-8859-1 character set (particularly but not necessarily W2K)
2. create a QIF file containing text zones containing non-ASCII chars. (e.g. à, ä, Â, Ç, é, è, ê, ã, õ, ñ, ó, ...)
3. Import QIF file to GnuCash, then observe results where all non-ASCII chars. have been eliminated.


Actual results:
all non-ASCII characters have been physically eliminated

Expected results:
that all non-ASCII (text, printable) characters appear, as in the source

Does this happen every time?
yes

Other information:
I propose that development strive to comply completely with Unicode standard to include all and eliminate none.