GnuCash fails to import some CP932 CSV files because of libgoffice problem

[Yasuaki Taniguchi]

GnuCash fails to import some CP932 CSV files, which contains NEC/IBM extensions characters (ex. roman numbers, numbers with circle, square cm sign).
This seems to be libgoffice problem.

A sample file "cp932.csv" is attached.

[Expected behavior]
GnuCash can import successfully like gnucash-cp932-good.png.

[Actual behavior]
GnuCash fails to detect the CP932 encoding like gnucash-cp932-invalid-dialog.png and gnucash-cp932-invalid-dialog2.png

[Workaround for this problem]
Apply an attached patch goffice-0.8.1-sjischarmap.patch

[Yasuaki Taniguchi (yasuakit)]

Additional workaround
Use iconv program before importing CSV file like this:
$ iconv -f CP932 -t UTF-8 -o utf-8.csv cp932.csv

[Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek)]

Thanks for reporting this bug and any supporting documentation. Since this bug has enough information provided for a developer to begin work, I'm going to mark it as confirmed and let them handle it from here. Thanks for taking the time to make Ubuntu better!

[Nobuto Murata (nobuto)]

Your patch has been accepted in upstream as 0.8.11. Our latest development release Natty already has 0.8.12-1.
It would help us greatly if you could test with it. You can find out more about the development release at http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/ . Thanks again and we appreciate your help.

[Nobuto Murata (nobuto)]

Fixed version is already in Ubuntu natty. So "Fix Released" status is more appropriate than "Incomplete". Feel free to reopen this bug if you think it's not fixed.