Swedish characters åäö won't work with datamerge

[Studio 1583]

Hi. 
I'm trying to use datamerge to print out shipping labels, but no mather what encoding I use inDesign can't read the swedish characters åäö. Anybody know what I can do? Hoping for a fast answer since I have to print them tomorrow. 

[Eric Dumas]

Can you confirm the exact version of your operating system and software?

• When you open the csv in Notepad (or TexEdit on Mac), do these character behave as expected?
• In InDesign, does the font you use support these characters? Have you tried to use the same font as the one used in Excel (or equivalent)?

[Manan Joshi · Accepted solution]

Hi There,

Please try with UTF-16 BE encoding. I tested this for another query posted here and it worked for me.

-Manan

[Studio 1583]

That solved it, thanks.