I believe I have encountered the same issue in my log. (Currently on Swisslog 5.118 – latest beta from 22 July 2026).
Norwegian special characters (Æ, Ø and Å) are not displayed correctly in the Comments field in the QSO Entry window and in the New QSOs list.
However, if I double-click the QSO to open the Edit QSO window, the exact same text is displayed correctly in the Notes field.
I have also verified that the text is stored correctly in the Microsoft Access database, where all Norwegian characters appear as expected. This makes me believe the problem is not related to the database itself, but rather to the way Swisslog interprets or renders the character encoding in these specific views.
I have also tried changing the Windows 11 language and regional settings, but this did not make any difference.
One additional observation: older QSOs (for example from 2024) display the Norwegian characters correctly. The issue only affects newer QSOs, and the comments were entered manually in Swisslog (not imported from ADIF or any other source).
This makes me think that something may have changed in the way these comments are handled.
It's not a major issue, but it is probably most noticeable for hams like me who regularly use the Notes field to record short comments or information exchanged during a QSO. I also suspect it may affect other languages that use non-ASCII characters.
Have you come across this before, or is there a setting or update that resolves the problem?
73 de Lars, LB2TB "New user" of Swisslog from 20.01.2020 (5.99F)
Previous user of Swisslog 1993-2010.
