How to make Æ Ø Å copyable from the PDF output

Asked Apr 24 '15 at 11:40

Active Apr 24 '15 at 12:29

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When building a PDF file with LaTeX the character å gets uncopyable. It only results in

̊a

when copied.

\documentclass{article}


\usepackage[norsk]{babel} 


\begin{document}
Try copying this åæø and the å gets strange..

\end{document}

This question is not the same as the one it's marked duplicate of. They do not address the problem with copying ÆØÅ. As you see in Sveinungs answer, he still has problem to copy the characters.

edited Apr 24 '15 at 12:29

asked Apr 24 '15 at 11:40

miniHessel

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\usepackage[T1]{fontenc} and naturally inputenc: \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} if your document is utf8 encoded. – Ulrike Fischer Apr 24 '15 at 11:42
@UlrikeFischer I'm sure this has been asked before, but I'm unable to find the original question... – yo' Apr 24 '15 at 11:43
I didn't find anything @yo' – miniHessel Apr 24 '15 at 11:44
@UlrikeFischer Tried both, none of them worked. I'm on a mac. – miniHessel Apr 24 '15 at 11:45
Thank you for posting a working example! At the same time, much of your code does not seem to be relevant to the question you're asking here. Please limit the example to only the code required for your issue to appear. You can have a look at this guide for how to prune your code for this purpose. – Martin Schröder Apr 24 '15 at 11:47
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"None of them worked" is not a sensible problem description. – Ulrike Fischer Apr 24 '15 at 11:48
You told me to try two packages, none of them gave a solution to the problem. – miniHessel Apr 24 '15 at 11:49
@MartinSchröder I believe he asks about copyable text, not the specific characters I have trouble with. Also, if you look in the answer of Sveinung, he also is unable to copy ÆØÅ. – miniHessel Apr 24 '15 at 11:50
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@miniHessel If I add \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} and \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}, everything works. However it depends on the editor you're using; it may be set up for a different encoding, perhaps latin9 instead of utf8. – egreg Apr 24 '15 at 11:53
In addition to what @egreg says, could you detail your operating system, PDF viewer and TeX system version? – Joseph Wright Apr 24 '15 at 11:55
Tried with OS X viewer and Skim on OS X, same on both. Tried with different TeX version, doesn't change. – miniHessel Apr 24 '15 at 11:57
Evince and Adobe Reader tested on Linux using Ulrikes suggestion, copying text works just fine. All text is copied. Can you post the PDF somewhere we can download it? – daleif Apr 24 '15 at 12:15
Here https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1255736/test.pdf – miniHessel Apr 24 '15 at 12:26
I can copy and paste without any problems from your test file: "Try copying this åæø and the å gets strange" – Ulrike Fischer Apr 24 '15 at 12:34
Then it's Mac who uses a strange encoding? – miniHessel Apr 24 '15 at 12:37
Update, if I open the PDF in Google Chrome, it's copyable. – miniHessel Apr 24 '15 at 12:45
Also works fine in FF. – daleif Apr 24 '15 at 12:52
It is not Mac using a strange encoding, the file is the same. It might be worth looks at what exactly you are copying the text into. – daleif Apr 24 '15 at 12:53
Into MS WORD in both cases.. But have tried Sublime etc. – miniHessel Apr 24 '15 at 13:02
Have you tried pasting into a terminal? – daleif Apr 24 '15 at 13:03
You know what, the \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} fixed it! The reason I didn't know it was because I copied into sublime(which doesn't work).. If I copy it to word, it works perfectly now. Thanks everyone. – miniHessel Apr 24 '15 at 13:06
Just tested SublimeText on a Mac and it clearly have a problem. The standard text editor on the Mac has no problem with pasting the data. – daleif Apr 24 '15 at 13:15
I can't create an answer as the question is a duplicate. – Ulrike Fischer Apr 24 '15 at 13:18
It actually isn't a duplicate, because the problem is SublimeText. – miniHessel Apr 24 '15 at 13:26
Either (1) It's a dupe or (2) it's off-topic (bout SublimeText)! – Joseph Wright Apr 24 '15 at 15:03

How to make Æ Ø Å copyable from the PDF output

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