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Bug 703527 - Non-ascii characters are wrongly imported via libofx on Windows
Non-ascii characters are wrongly imported via libofx on Windows
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: GnuCash
Classification: Other
Component: Import - OFX
2.4.x
Other Windows
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: gnucash-import-maint
gnucash-import-maint
: 711580 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2013-07-03 10:13 UTC by Serge
Modified: 2018-06-29 23:17 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---

Attachments
test OFX-format file (1.12 KB, text/plain)
2013-07-03 10:16 UTC, Serge 		Details

Description Serge 2013-07-03 10:13:10 UTC 
I get unreadable NAME and MEMO fields in GnuCash GUI while importing utf-8 (cyrillic) ofx file.
Version 2.4.11 (and earlier versions) seems to import correctly (I've got correct NAME and MEMO using ofx-import in v.2.4.0, 2.4.10 and 2.4.11).

Version 2.4.12 and later (tested in  v.2.4.13 and 2.5.2) show unreadable NAME and MEMO.
Comment 1 Serge 2013-07-03 10:16:25 UTC 
Created attachment 248297 [details]
test OFX-format file
Comment 2 David Hawley 2014-04-23 14:32:47 UTC 
I think this may be the same problem as reported for Japanese text.
http://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-devel/2009-October/026648.html

From googling, it seems there is/was a libofx bug, and at least the Windows version of Gnucash looks like it is using a very old version of libofx.
Comment 3 John Ralls 2017-09-24 22:16:14 UTC 
Reassign version to 2.4.x so that individual 2.4 versions can be retired.
Comment 4 Geert Janssens 2018-05-01 09:06:20 UTC 
*** Bug 711580 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 5 Geert Janssens 2018-05-01 09:09:22 UTC 
There is something wrong with libofx's character set conversion code on Windows. This bug reports issues with UTF-8, the duplicate bug 711580 reports issues with non-ascii in code page 1252 (French).

I'll adjust the title accordingly.

Note the other bug also has a sample OFX file to test with and some more testing history.
Comment 6 John Ralls 2018-06-29 23:17:11 UTC 
GnuCash bug tracking has moved to a new Bugzilla host. The new URL for this bug is https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=703527. Please continue processing the bug there and please update any external references or bookmarks.