How to solve problems with non English characters (å ä ö) in data merge

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December 19, 2022
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Hi, do any else have problems with (for example) å, ä, and ö being replaced with nonsense when doing a data merge on InDesign? Does anyone know of any solution to this?

chrisg11235813

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the same "nonsense" character should be consistantly represent the actual character you intended-- a find/replace might not be the ideal solution, but should be an accurate way to fix the data merge file.

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pålk44482998Author

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Hi Chris, yes, that's a solution we've used. But as you say, not ideal... And the nonsense text actually differs a bit from doc to doc, so we cannot use any preset find/replace. And would love to find a solution to the root problem. Thanks!