Words starting with Swedish letters not generated in right order in index

[MarkESpark]

Hi!

I am working with Indesign 2018 and I have a problem with the index of a book written in Swedish. Swedish has three extra letters Å, Ä and Ö and words beginning with these letters should go at the end of the alphabet / index. However, after generating the index indesign places words that start with Å and Ä immediately after the words starting with A.  And the words that start with Ö are placed immediately after the words starting with O. See below.

orsaken och verkan. Se handlingar och effekter; karma

otaliga levande varelser  97, 155

ödmjukhet  134–138

önskande kärlek  80, 183–194

önskeuppfyllande juvel  98, 113, 124, 201, 212

övertygelse  197, 199

P

Palden, Geshe  195

pansarliknande ansträngning  159

potential  5, 52, 99–100, 121, 131, 169–170, 197

för att gynna levande varelser  189, 194, 197

för att återfödas i ett rent land  200

primärt sinne  228. O .

The only way I can fix this at the moment is to manually move the Å, Ä and Ö words to the end after generating the index. But if I need to make change to the index and generate it again then I need to manually move these words again.

I have already set the language to Swedish in the character panel, so I don't know what else to do.

Does anyone have any tips?

Many thanks!

[SJRiegel · Accepted solution]

You can use the index panel to change the sorting order for those words.

[MarkESpark]

Hi!

Many thanks for your swift reply. I have applied the changes you suggest and the index now looks like this:

Y

yogan i att jämställa samsara och nirvana  252

yogi/yogini  26, 122, 190. O .

yttra sanningen  195

yttre objekt  10

yttre omständigheter  12, 69, 278

  beror på sinnet  145, 179

  och lycka  7, 18, 176, 280

Z

åldrandet  32, 60–63, 79

åtaganden  76. O .

  för att träna sinnet  150–151

återfödelse  21–27, 46–49, 79

  förorenad  47, 53, 56, 71

  i ett rent land  200

  okontrollerad  34, 66, 147

  utan början  56, 207

återfödelse som djur  26, 48–49, 52–53, 76–77

  begränsningar  4

återfödelse som människa  47, 52, 55, 119, 175

  lidandet  55–69

ägodelar  64, 68, 97, 135, 277–278

ödmjukhet  134–138

önskande kärlek  80, 183–194

önskeuppfyllande juvel  98, 113, 124, 201, 212

övertygelse  197, 199

So this is much better, since it all the entries are in the right order now. However, there are a couple more changes I would like to make. We don't have any words in the index that begin with Z, so I don't want the Z index section header to be generated.

Also, we are missing the index section headers for Å, Ä and Ö. Any idea how to generate them automatically from the index?

Thanks again!

[MarkESpark]

I will mark this question as answered and start a new thread for my follow up question.

[SJRiegel]

Based on the answer you received for your followup, my answer was not really correct, and was just an unnecessary (for your situation) workaround. (It's a useful tool for me when an entry starts with a number, so I can sort 5th Wheel under Fifth Wheel, for instance.)

[MarkESpark]

True, the second answer I got solved the problem. But thanks anyway for giving it a shot.

Very cool that people want to help out in these forums.