From b5f954abf5d540b71caa7d1086448ac8b87c9e6a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Simon Michael <simon@joyful.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2025 10:39:19 -1000
Subject: [PATCH] imp:errors: decode failures now also mention a possible CSV
 encoding [#2465]

---
 hledger-lib/Hledger/Utils/IO.hs | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/hledger-lib/Hledger/Utils/IO.hs b/hledger-lib/Hledger/Utils/IO.hs
index 6e0695643..b8826cdbe 100644
--- a/hledger-lib/Hledger/Utils/IO.hs
+++ b/hledger-lib/Hledger/Utils/IO.hs
@@ -341,7 +341,8 @@ handleExit = flip catches [
         noencoding = map toLower enc == "ascii"
         msg = unlines $ [
             rstrip $ show ex
-          , "Some text could not be decoded with the system text encoding, " <> enc <> "."
+          , "Some text could not be decoded with the system's text encoding, " <> enc
+          , "(or if CSV rules specified it, the CSV's text encoding)."
           ] ++
           if noencoding
           then [