Special character in url link

Question

I would like to insert the following text:

\href{http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_successful_coups_d'état}{http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List\_of\_successful\_coups\_d'état}

However, that doesn't work because of the special character é in the first entry. Is there any way to get it working? I am not using \url because I don't want it to be formatted. But if someone knows how to prevent \url from changing the font, that would solve the problem, too.

Thanks.

Welcome to TeX.SX. Please provide a minimmal example (ME) that includes the entire LaTeX source and that demonstrates the problem. — , Dec 16 '12 at 12:44
If you've loaded \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} and \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}, it should work without problems. — Jake, Dec 16 '12 at 12:52
For your second question: Typeset URL in a non-typewriter font — Jake, Dec 16 '12 at 12:53
Use %E9 instead of é in the first argument. This is called URL encoding. — cyberSingularity, Dec 16 '12 at 12:58

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 16 '12 at 20:35

To summarise the suggestions in the comments, the following should all work if your file is saved with a UTF8 encoding:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\begin{document}
\href{http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_successful_coups_d'état}{http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List\_of\_successful\_coups\_d'état}

\href{http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_successful_coups_d'\%E9tat}{http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List\_of\_successful\_coups\_d'état}

\urlstyle{same}
\url{http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_successful_coups_d'état}
\end{document}

Bad title The requested page title contains an invalid UTF-8 sequence. — dantopa, Jan 31 '21 at 17:23

Special character in url link

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