Encoding Issue?

[siddhantgoel]

Encoding Issue?

[asteriuscz]

Just for the other who need to find a way on Win10.
bean-extract config.py transaction.csv | Out-File -Encoding utf8 -Append ledger.beancount

will do the work for you

[siddhantgoel]

Are you running the importer on a Windows system or a POSIX one?

[MDKaiser]

Windows 10.

[siddhantgoel]

Another question: if you don't pipe the result to path_to_beancount and just print it to the console, do those characters still show up?

[MDKaiser]

Interesting:
So far I've used "powershell" (default in Visual Studio Code) to call on bean-extract. This produces the symbol-issue shown above. When piping into the console, everything appears normal however.

After your comment, I've also tried running bean-extract in a Windows command prompt and piping into the .beancount file: This works (almost)! Umlaute are still messed up (like mentioned in the last sentence of my first comment).

[siddhantgoel]

Hey, I'm not sure if we need to keep this issue around? To me this sounds like something with the development environment. Especially because the methods inside this package are returning plain Python data structures. The actual job of piping the output is done inside bean-extract so Beancount's mailing list might be more helpful in this regard.

[siddhantgoel]

I'll mark this as closed for now.