Problem with accent in portuguese

Question

I'm making some document in portuguese. Everything is working fine, but when I open the PDF and try to copy the characters, those with accent make some mess. What I mean is that I write, for exemple, "ação", it's shows in the PDF "ação", but if I try to copy this word from the PDF then I get "a,c~ao". Below you find my code. How can I solve this? Any help will be appreciated. Thank you!

\documentclass[12pt, a4paper]{report} 
\usepackage[a4paper, left=3cm, right=2.5cm, top=3cm, bottom=2.5cm]{geometry} 
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} 
\usepackage[portuguese]{babel}

\begin{document}
Some words in portuguese with accent: ação, está, cabeça, hélice.
\end{document}

UPDATE: The solution is, as one can see in the comments below, adding:

\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{lmodern}

This way, it is not necessary install cm-super.

@UlrikeFischer This produce characters with very poor render. — Eric, May 01 '20 at 14:42
If the T1 fonts are not rendering correctly you probably do not have the type1 scalable versions installed. — David Carlisle, May 01 '20 at 14:51
Searching in internet about T1 fonts, I found that is not necessary to instal cm-super package. It is sufficient to add \usepackage{lmodern}. So the complete solution to add to my code is: \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} \usepackage{lmodern} — Eric, May 01 '20 at 16:34

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited Mar 11 '23 at 13:20

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\usepackage[T1]{fontenc} changes the font encoding. The default is very limited (128 glyphs) and does not contain accented characters.

edited Mar 11 '23 at 13:20

Sebastiano

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answered May 01 '20 at 14:35

Adrián Delgado

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Problem with accent in portuguese

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