Just an observation. The Import List PI has no problems reading the CSV's I save from Excel - as stated in its intro post
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Import from CSV File - many users have lists of books stored in applications like Excel which can export to CSV, or use websites like Goodreads/Library Thing which also have export to CSV capability.
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I use the Import List frequently with CSV's I save from Excel. From that I conclude the UTF-8 requirement is not imposed by the calibre infrastructure.
Rather than installing 200+MB of Open Office, you could try using
libiconv - GNU Project(FSF) to convert the CSV saved from Excel to UTF-8 encoding
Or in Excel you could save the table as Unicode Text, open it in Notepad, and in Save As change the encoding to UTF-8. If the Define Genre's PI does not allow you to set the delimiter to Tab, you'll have to replace Tabs with commas. IMO anything that reads a CSV should allow the user to define the delimiter - as the data may contain commas.
BR