Currfile and acutes

Question

I'm currently working on a document with LaTeX and I want to make all sectioning in a separate document.

On main.tex I have the following

\documentclass[fontsize=12pt, fonttype=arial]{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[catalan, activeacute]{babel}
\usepackage{currfile}
\begin{document}
\tableofcontents
\newpage
\input{Composició de la matèria}
%On the future I will have more \input with more sections
\end{document}

And on "Composició de la matèria.tex" I have this

\section{\currfilebase}
%On the future I will have more text here

But the pdf output it's the following

Table of contents

The section

It happens with all the catalan acutes, how could I do it?

Welcome to TeX.SX! It is an interesting idea, but is it really necessary that the file name is exactly the section title in the file? Just being curious ... — Jasper Habicht, Nov 17 '21 at 12:41
I wouldn't do that, file names and section titles are quite different things and should be set independantly. What will you do if you want a superscript or some math or some latex command in the title ? — Ulrike Fischer, Nov 17 '21 at 13:09

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 17 '21 at 13:50

I don't think there's much to gain with this approach.

Anyway, the problem is that \currfilebase is stored as a string (all characters receive category code 12) and so utf8 cannot do its translation job.

Here's a patch that also stores a “normal characters” version of \currfilebase, called \utfcurrfilebase.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[catalan]{babel}
\usepackage{currfile}
\usepackage{xpatch}
\makeatletter
\xpatchcmd{\currfile@set}
 {\global\let\currfilebase\filename@base}
 {\global\let\currfilebase\filename@base\makeutf@currfilebase}
 {}{}
\makeatother
\ExplSyntaxOn
\cs_new_protected:cpn { makeutf@currfilebase }
 {
  \tl_gset_rescan:Nnx \utfcurrfilebase {} { \currfilebase }
 }
\ExplSyntaxOff
\begin{document}
\tableofcontents
\input{Composició de la matèria}
\end{document}

The included file should use \utfcurrfilebase:

\section{\utfcurrfilebase}

Currfile and acutes

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