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I use soulutf8 for underlining in my LaTeX document. However, it seems to be stripping characters from the end of compound words, e.g.:

\ul{$n$-rozměrný}

results in

n-rozměrn

However, if I break the word at the hypen, i.e.:

\ul{$n$ rozměrný}

the 'ý' character re-appears:

n rozměrný

My document is defined as follows:

\documentclass[dvips,12pt]{article}

\usepackage[czech]{babel}
\usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc}
\usepackage[IL2]{fontenc}
\usepackage{soulutf8}

A similar problem has already been described here; however, the proposed solution doesn't seem to work in my case.

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The problem is in the fact that babel-czech makes the hyphen a shorthand character, but soul has no check for an active -; the result is that as many characters at the end are mangled as there are hyphens in the text.

Here is a workaround using regexpatch:

\documentclass[12pt]{article}

\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[czech]{babel}
\usepackage{soulutf8}

\usepackage{regexpatch}
\makeatletter
\regexpatchcmd*{\SOUL@eval}
  {\cO-}
  {\cA-}
  {}{}
\makeatother

\begin{document}

\ul{$n$-rozměrný}

\ul{$n$ rozměrný}

\ul{a-b-cd}

\end{document}

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Note that the IL2 encoding is obsolete and not recommended any more. I'd prefer utf8 to utf8x, as it's more stable.

Without regexpatch it's possible too, but quite indirectly.

\documentclass[12pt]{article}

\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[czech]{babel}
\usepackage{soulutf8}

\usepackage{etoolbox}
\makeatletter
\patchcmd{\SOUL@eval}{-}{\SOUL@@@hyphen}{}{}
\patchcmd{\SOUL@eval}{-}{\SOUL@@@hyphen}{}{}
\catcode`-=\active
\patchcmd{\SOUL@eval}{\SOUL@@@hyphen}{-}{}{}
\patchcmd{\SOUL@eval}{\SOUL@@@hyphen}{-}{}{}
\catcode`-=12
\makeatother

\begin{document}

\ul{$n$-rozměrný}

\ul{$n$ rozměrný}

\ul{a-b-cd}

\end{document}
egreg
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  • Thanks, the regexpatch fixes it (just as the mbox proposed in the comments). The main reason I stick with IL2 is that if I use T1 and copy "n-rozměrný" from the output PDF, I get: "n ✲r♦3♠➙r♥ý", whereas everything works OK when the encoding is set to IL2. – John Manak Jul 24 '14 at 11:03
  • @JohnManak No, if you have a decent TeX distribution with Type1 fonts for the T1 encoded ones. Try adding \usepackage{lmodern}. You may want to look also at Slovak (and Czech) babel gives problems with \cmidrule and \cline for another problem with babel-czech. – egreg Jul 24 '14 at 11:08
  • I've just been looking into this right now as well and yes, \usepackage{lmodern} fixes that problem too. – John Manak Jul 24 '14 at 11:09