Using characters such as å,ä,ö does not work when using #+LINK

example:

`#+LINK: Färdmedel file:~/färdmedel.org'

this does not work, however the following does:

`#+LINK: Fardmedel file:~/färdmedel.org'

Is there an easy fix?

Emacs  : GNU Emacs 23.2.1 (i386-mingw-nt6.1.7600)
 of 2010-05-08 on G41R2F1
Package: Org-mode version 7.4