hyperref won't work with accented characters

Question

I have the following issue with hyperref and accented characters that I can't work out:

\documentclass[12pt]{article}

\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{hyperref}

\begin{document}

\href{http://epfl.academia.edu/AlejandroAragón}{my academic profile}

\href{http://epfl.academia.edu/AlejandroArag\'{o}n}{my academic profile}

\href{http://epfl.academia.edu/AlejandroArag&oacute;n}{my academic profile}

\end{document}

None of the resulting links take me to the right link in the browser, and actually the first two are disabled (they don't do anything). Am I missing something?

SOLUTION

I just replaced it by the following line:

\href{http://epfl.academia.edu/AlejandroArag\%C3\%B3n}{my academic profile}

Mario S. E. · Answer 1 · 2013-05-01T17:40:38.117

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You are missing \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} before \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}

If you run this:

\documentclass[12pt]{article}

\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{hyperref}

\begin{document}

\href{http://epfl.academia.edu/AlejandroAragón}{my academic profile}

\href{http://epfl.academia.edu/AlejandroArag\'{o}n}{my academic profile}

\href{http://epfl.academia.edu/AlejandroArag&oacute;n}{my academic profile}

\end{document}

Your output will have link 1 and 2 working perfectly. Link 3 seems broken.

edited May 01 '13 at 17:40

answered May 01 '13 at 17:29

Mario S. E.

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No, that didn't work. – aaragon May 01 '13 at 17:33
It's working for me here... I get to this page: http://epfl.academia.edu/AlejandroArag%F3n – Mario S. E. May 01 '13 at 17:35
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It’s working for me as well, actually no matter if before or after inputenc. Is there a reason you specified the placement, @Mario? – doncherry May 01 '13 at 17:41
@doncherry Yes :). Take a look here: http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/44699/27833 – Mario S. E. May 01 '13 at 17:44
@AlejandroMarcosAragon Are you still having a problem? Did you run the code shown in the answer? – Mario S. E. May 01 '13 at 17:46
No, it doesn't work for me at all. Links 1 and 2 from the answer are broken for me. I'm compiling the document with pdflatex (using TeXShop). – aaragon May 01 '13 at 18:53
@AlejandroMarcosAragon are you creating a pdf output? What viewer are you using? – Mario S. E. May 01 '13 at 18:55
Yes, I'm creating a pdf output. I'm using Preview for Mac. I opened in Adobe Reader, and they work! So then this is a bug in Preview or something? – aaragon May 01 '13 at 18:56
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@AlejandroMarcosAragon did you try what is said in this link? http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/65422/how-to-write-properly-an-accent-in-a-web-address – Mario S. E. May 01 '13 at 18:57

hyperref won't work with accented characters

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