Empty result when geocoding address in Sweden using MMQGIS

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I am trying to geocode an address in QGIS. I am aware of the MMQGIS Plugin and I have been trying to use that.
The dialogue window appears as though it is catered to US addresses as it contains a column for "State". The address that I want to geocode is Swedish. The CSV file in which I have the address is formatted in UTF-8. I also have the Google API Key.
When the geocoding is done a new layer is added in the panel but it doesn't contain any information and nothing appears on the map. You can see some screenshots below.
A CSV file:

My empty result after Geocoding:

Ben · Answer

Did you try to use the OSM-Geocoding? Otherwise the fault is likely to be in the Formatting of the CSV.

Babel · Answer

This is a limitation of the plugin. It accepts ASCII characters only. Try changing special characters by it's nearest ASCII equivalent: ä by a etc. Otherwise, use another Geocoding method.
See here for details:
https://gis.stackexchange.com/a/382550/88814

Taras · Answer

Sounds silly but if you work on Windows you may try using the ANSI encoding (I know that UTF-8 should be used), see the image below

For more details, please check What is ANSI format?.

As @Babel suggested, I also tried using ANSI encoding with other addresses that possess Latin and special Latin characters. They were successfully geocoded with MMQGIS, please see the image below.

Unfortunately, it did not work with non-Latin characters.
They can be encoded in UTF-8, viewed in Notepad++ but not geocoded in MMQGIS.

They could not be encoded in ANSI, some details were described in this comment.

References:

ANSI character set and equivalent Unicode and HTML characters
ASCII and ANSI Character Table
wikipedia | ANSI character set

Empty result when geocoding address in Sweden using MMQGIS

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