Need to write "U despite of using ngerman babel

Question

I write a presentation in German language, so I use

\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}

Now, I want to write "UTF-8" but the output looks like that:

How can I fix it?

Thank you for your help!

MWE:

\documentclass{beamer}

\usetheme{Boadilla}

\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}

\begin{document}

    \begin{frame}
        \texttt{"UTF-8"}
    \end{frame}

\end{document}

"{}UTF-8" if you want to keep using shorthands in the rest of your document. — samcarter_is_at_topanswers.xyz, Jan 09 '19 at 15:07
\verb|"UTF-8"| would work as well but might require fragile setting on the frame. — Martin Scharrer, Jan 12 '19 at 13:31

score 7 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 09 '19 at 15:03

The " character is defined as a shorthand for \" which is why you get the umlaut on the U. Assuming you are writing umlauts directly in your source anyway, you likely don't need the shorthand, so the easiest solution is to turn it off. You can do this by adding the shorthands = off option to babel:

\documentclass{beamer}

\usetheme{Boadilla}

\usepackage[ngerman,shorthands=off]{babel}

\begin{document}

    \begin{frame}
        \texttt{"UTF-8"}
    \end{frame}

\end{document}

Need to write "U despite of using ngerman babel

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