Listings in Latex with UTF-8 (or at least german umlauts)

Question

Trying to include a source-file into my latex document using the listings package, i got problems with german umlauts inside of the comments in the code. Using

\lstset{
extendedchars=\true,
inputencoding=utf8x
}

Umlauts in the source files (encoded in UTF-8 without BOM) are processed, but they are somehow moved to the beginning of the word they are contained in. So

// die Größe muss berücksichtigt werden

in the input source file, becomes

// die ößGre muss übercksichtigt werden

in the output file.

NOTE: since i found errors in my initial setup, i heavily edited this question

Answer 1

You might need to set the document's input encoding to also be UTF-8. There's a comp.text.tex thread discussing how to do this. The following accomplishes this in TeXLive on GNU/Linux:

\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}

Answer 2

Author of package suggests using texcl option. Sometimes it helps, sometimes doesn't.

Answer 3

Simply don't use UTF-8 in LaTex if you want to use any listings packages. Using latin1 in your documents will display German Umlauts just fine.

I'm writing my thesis in German using this setup:

% Your language, here German
\usepackage[ngerman]{babel} 
% Will work with Umlauts
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
% Euro characters etc.
\usepackage{textcomp}
% Works perfectly with latin1
\usepackage{listings}

Answer 4

I can confirm that solution provided by Janosch works almost correctly.

In my case I needed to use Spanish characters: á,é,í,ó,ú,ñ,Á,É,Í,Ó,Ú and tried his solution without results until I compiled my file with xelatex instead of pdflatex.

Anyway you should modify listings.sty either in your local copy or directly in the common file and add the following:

\lst@CCPutMacro
    \lst@ProcessOther {"23}\#
    \lst@ProcessLetter{"24}\textdollar
    \lst@ProcessOther {"25}\%
    \lst@ProcessOther {"26}\&
        %spanish letters coded in UTF
    \lst@ProcessOther {"E1}{\'a}
    \lst@ProcessOther {"C1}{\'A}
    \lst@ProcessOther {"E9}{\'e}
    \lst@ProcessOther {"C9}{\'E}
    \lst@ProcessOther {"ED}{\'i}
    \lst@ProcessOther {"CD}{\'I}
    \lst@ProcessOther {"F3}{\'o}
    \lst@ProcessOther {"D3}{\'O}
    \lst@ProcessOther {"FA}{\'u}
    \lst@ProcessOther {"DA}{\'U}
    \lst@ProcessOther {"F1}{ñ}
    \lst@ProcessOther {"D1}{Ñ}

In my .tex file I used the following options for listings:

\usepackage{listingsutf8}
\lstset{
        inputencoding=utf8,
        extendedchars=\true}

Hope it can help anybody and maybe we can construct a listing.sty containing almost every UTF8 char... :)

Answer 5

So geht es (should work for other languages - spanish, danish as well)

Heimo Adelsberger ([email protected])

---SNIP--- \documentclass[ a4paper, %% defines the paper size: a4paper (default), a5paper, letterpaper, ... 12pt %% set default font size to 12 point ]{scrartcl} %% article, see KOMA documentation (scrguide.dvi)

\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}

\usepackage[T1]{fontenc} \usepackage{listings}

\lstset{language=Pascal} \lstset{literate=% {Ö}{{\"O}}1 {Ä}{{\"A}}1 {Ü}{{\"U}}1 {ß}{{\ss}}2 {ü}{{\"u}}1 {ä}{{\"a}}1 {ö}{{\"o}}1 }

\begin{document}

[Latex: kann man Umlaute in lstlisting verwenden?] \begin{lstlisting} Test für Umlaut äöü ÄÖÜ ß So geht es \end{lstlisting}

\end{document}

Answer 6

I found a simpler approach, which works for me:

\usepackage{listings}

\lstset{
  literate={ö}{{\"o}}1
           {ä}{{\"a}}1
           {ü}{{\"u}}1
}

Answer 7

Works fine for me!

My 2 cents for the French side:

\lst@ProcessOther {"C0}{\`{A}}
\lst@ProcessOther {"C1}{\'{A}}
\lst@ProcessOther {"C2}{\^{A}}
\lst@ProcessOther {"C4}{\"{A}}
\lst@ProcessOther {"C7}{\c{C}}
\lst@ProcessOther {"C8}{\`{E}}
\lst@ProcessOther {"C9}{\'{E}}
\lst@ProcessOther {"CA}{\^{E}}
\lst@ProcessOther {"CB}{\"{E}}
\lst@ProcessOther {"CE}{\^{I}}
\lst@ProcessOther {"CF}{\"{I}}
\lst@ProcessOther {"D4}{\^{O}}
\lst@ProcessOther {"D6}{\"{O}}
\lst@ProcessOther {"D9}{\`{U}}
\lst@ProcessOther {"DB}{\^{U}}
\lst@ProcessOther {"E0}{\`{a}}
\lst@ProcessOther {"E1}{\'{a}}
\lst@ProcessOther {"E2}{\^{a}}
\lst@ProcessOther {"E4}{\"{a}}
\lst@ProcessOther {"E7}{\c{c}}
\lst@ProcessOther {"E8}{\`{e}}
\lst@ProcessOther {"E9}{\'{e}}
\lst@ProcessOther {"EA}{\^{e}}
\lst@ProcessOther {"EB}{\"{e}}
\lst@ProcessOther {"EE}{\^{\i}}
\lst@ProcessOther {"EF}{\"{\i}}
\lst@ProcessOther {"F4}{\^{o}}
\lst@ProcessOther {"F6}{\"{o}}
\lst@ProcessOther {"F9}{\`{u}}
\lst@ProcessOther {"FB}{\^{u}}