What happenend to the Umlaut ? [SOlVED]

karlgoethebier has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi all,

i build some PDFs using LaTeX and Text::Template.

Populating my hash to fill in the template i stumbled over this:

my $customer  =  q(Karl Dämlich);

$customer = encode_utf8($customer);

say $customer;

my $data = {
    customer_name   => $customer,
    factoring_nr    => '123456',
    user            => 'karl',
    invoice_amount  => '50.403,50',
    number_invoices => '5',
    dispatched      => $date,
    approved        => $date_time,
    invoices        => \@invoices,
};

dd $data;

__END__

karl@host:~/mk_pdf # ./template.pl
Karl Dämlich
{
  approved        => "04.12.2015 15:24:42",
  customer_name   => "Karl D\xC3\xA4mlich",
  dispatched      => "04.12.2015",
  factoring_nr    => 123456,
  invoice_amount  => "50.403,50",
  invoices        => [],
  number_invoices => 5,
  user            => "karl",
}
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What happenend to the Umlaut?

Update:I gave it up bothering myself. After using the tabular environment instead of hyperref forms everything works. Thanks to all that helped.

Thank you very much for any hint and best regards, Karl

«The Crux of the Biscuit is the Apostrophe»

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Re: What happenend to the Umlaut ? by Anonymous Monk on Dec 04, 2015 at 15:23 UTC
Not sure what you're asking... It seems to me you're using `Encode::encode_utf8` and `Data::Dump::dd`? If so, two things happened: "Karl Dämlich" was encoded in utf-8: `$customer = encode_utf8($customer);` [download] The encoded form of "Karl Dämlich" was displayed by `Data::Dump::dd` as "Karl D\xC3\xA4mlich". The cursory scan of the `Data::Dump`'s source suggests that it was done by the `quote` function: `sub quote { ... s/([\0-\037\177-\377])/sprintf('\\x%02X',ord($1))/eg; ... }` [download] presumably to make its representation unambiguous.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: What happenend to the Umlaut ? by karlgoethebier (Abbot) on Dec 04, 2015 at 17:21 UTC
Ah, i jumped to the wrong conclusion: `say $data->{customer_name};` works. In my template i have: `\TextField[name=Kundenname,width=\textfieldwidth,backgroundcolor=white, bordercolor={white}, value={[@-- $customer_name --@]}, readonly={true}]{\AdjustSize[l]{Kundenname:}}` And `$customer_name` expands to this weird noise: `Dprotect unhbox voidb@x group U@D 1ex{setbox z@ hbox {char 127}dimen@ -.45exadvance dimen@ ht z@ ontdimen 5ont dimen@ }accent 127ontdimen 5ont U@D aegroup mlich` I say `\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}` and Umlauts get displayed correct except in something like `[@-- $customer_name --@]`. Update: I have no idea how to continue. Any further hints? Best regards, Karl «The Crux of the Biscuit is the Apostrophe»	[reply] [d/l] [select]