Text Formatting ⇒ swedish characters behave strange in .pdf

[aspegren]

Hi!

I'm writing documents in Latex and saves them as pdf. The swedish characters "åäö" looks fine and all is good. But, when you start to copy text from your pdf the "åäö" often gets lost in the copy/paste process.

Escpecially now, I have a huge document (140 p.) which I'm going to make som changes in (in Overleaf), but I want to track all my changes, therefor I'm using the Adobe Acrobat Comapare .pdf function. But it marks almost all of the "åäö", even if it isn't changed because Latex seems to treat "åäö" very bad.

Is anyone having a solution for this problem?

Example if I copy/paste from .pdf:
Copy: "högskolan utvärderar"
Paste: "h¨ogskolan utv¨arderar"

[Ijon Tichy]

This depends on the TeX engine, the input encoding and the font encoding you are using. So more information, i.e. a minimal working example, would be needed to give a definite suggestion. Nevertheless, with pdfLaTeX you could try to use package cmap to improve the character mapping in the PDF.