In my document, which is encoded as utf8
throughout (hopefully), umlaute etc. in the document body are put out correctly, but those defined in a \newcommand
are not. I have tried some alternatives to writing the unlaute plain, and \symbol
works, while the international accent does not, and I'd rather not use it since it is a little cumbersome.
See the following example:
\newcommand{\myPlace}{Örtlichkeit}
\newcommand{\myWhat}{\"{O}rtlichkeit}
\newcommand{\myHmm}{Stra\symbol{255}e}
\documentclass{scrlttr2}
\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\begin{document}
\myPlace
\myWhat
\myHmm
ÖÄÜäöüß
\end{document}
Thanks for any input!
Best Answer
If you move the three
\newcommand
instructions to a point after the\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
instruction, you won't experience the problems you're reporting.Addendum -- A comment provided by @egreg -- If you wanted to leave the definitions at the top, you should use the LaTeX internal character representation (LICR) of the characters:
\newcommand{\myPlace}{\"{O}rtlichkeit}
and\newcommand{\myHmmm}{Stra\ss e}
. It's theinputenc
package that assigns the desired meaning to the non-ASCII characters, and using them before loading the package is what leads to puzzling results.