Q:

Swedish characters, but english captions

I am writing  thesis in english but I want to be able to use swedish letters. I use
\usepackage[swedish]{babel}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}

This works fine, I thought, but I now noticed that all the captions (table, fig etc) use the swedish form "Figur" instead of "Figure" and "Tabell" instead of "Table".
Any ideas on how to achieve the english form of captions and still be able to use swedish letters in the text?

A:

If you write mainly in English and have only certain parts in Swedish (e.g. abstract) you should use
\usepackage[swedish,english]{babel}

as the last language will be the document default language.
You can now switch languages with 
{\selectlanguage{swedish}
Denna mening är på svenska. Denna mening "ar p"w svenska.}

or
\begin{otherlanguage}{swedish}
  Denna mening är på svenska. Denna mening "ar p"w svenska.
\end{otherlanguage}

Note: With the input encoding latin1 (or utf8 for that matter) you are able to directly input ä, Ä, ö, Ö, å and Å. (But you can/should still use babel for hyphenation.)

