Dear Maintainer, When converting unicsv file to compegps format with the following command: gpsbabel -i unicsv -f toto.csv -o compegps -F toto.wpt With an unicsv file beginning with the line: Name,Desc,Alt,utm_e,utm_n,utm_z,utf-8 The ouptut file has the 'Name' strings converted to another enconding but not the 'Desc' strings. However it is not necessary to do a convertion if you add the following fist line: B UTF-8 in the output file. BR.