Problem with LaTeX hyperref

Question

i have an url with cyrilic characters:

http://www.pravoslavie.bg/Възпитание/Духовно-и-светско-образование

when i compile the document, i get following as url:

http://www.pravoslavie.bg/%5CT2A%5CCYRV%20%5CT2A%5Ccyrhrdsn%20%5CT2A%5Ccyrz%20%5CT2A%5Ccyrp%20%5CT2A%5Ccyri%20%5CT2A%5Ccyrt%20%5CT2A%5Ccyra%20%5CT2A%5Ccyrn%20%5CT2A%5Ccyri%20%5CT2A%5Ccyre%20/%5CT2A%5CCYRD%20%5CT2A%5Ccyru%20%5CT2A%5Ccyrh%20%5CT2A%5Ccyro%20%5CT2A%5Ccyrv%20%5CT2A%5Ccyrn%20%5CT2A%5Ccyro%20-%5CT2A%5Ccyri%20-%5CT2A%5Ccyrs%20%5CT2A%5Ccyrv%20%5CT2A%5Ccyre%20%5CT2A%5Ccyrt%20%5CT2A%5Ccyrs%20%5CT2A%5Ccyrk%20%5CT2A%5Ccyro%20-%5CT2A%5Ccyro%20%5CT2A%5Ccyrb%20%5CT2A%5Ccyrr%20%5CT2A%5Ccyra%20%5CT2A%5Ccyrz%20%5CT2A%5Ccyro%20%5CT2A%5Ccyrv%20%5CT2A%5Ccyra%20%5CT2A%5Ccyrn%20%5CT2A%5Ccyri%20%5CT2A%5Ccyre

and that ist not the same. Can I set the encoding to utf8 for hyperref? Or how can i solve the problem?

Answer 1

Assuming your LaTeX source is utf8 encoded, try adding \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} to your document. If utf8 doesn't work try utf8x. See here

Answer 2

@Mike Weller: i have already \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} in my document, with utf8x i get following as url:

http://www.pravoslavie.bg/\begingroup\let\relax\relax\
endgroup[Pleaseinsert\PrerenderUnicode{В}intopreamble]\begingroup\let\relax\relax\
endgroup[Pleaseinsert\PrerenderUnicode{ъ}intopreamble]\begingroup\let\relax\relax\
endgroup[Pleaseinsert\PrerenderUnicode{з}intopreamble]\begingroup\let\relax\relax\
endgroup[Pleaseinsert\PrerenderUnicode{п}intopreamble]\begingroup\let\relax\relax\
endgroup[Pleaseinsert\PrerenderUnicode{Ð ̧}intopreamble]\begingroup\let\relax\relax\
endgroup[Pleaseinsert\PrerenderUnicode{т}intopreamble]\begingroup\let\relax\relax\
endgroup[Pleaseinsert\PrerenderUnicode{а}intopreamble]\begingroup\let\relax\relax\
endgroup[Pleaseinsert\PrerenderUnicode{Ð1⁄2}intopreamble]\begingroup\let\relax\relax\
endgroup[Pleaseinsert\PrerenderUnicode{Ð ̧}intopreamble]\begingroup\let\relax\relax\
endgroup[Pleaseinsert\PrerenderUnicode{Ðμ}intopreamble]/\begingroup\let\relax\
relax\endgroup[Pleaseinsert\PrerenderUnicode{Д}intopreamble]\begingroup\let\relax\
relax\endgroup[Pleaseinsert\PrerenderUnicode{у}intopreamble]\begingroup\let\relax\
relax\endgroup[Pleaseinsert\PrerenderUnicode{х}intopreamble]\begingroup\let\relax\
relax\endgroup[Pleaseinsert\PrerenderUnicode{Ð3⁄4}intopreamble]\begingroup\let\relax\
relax\endgroup[Pleaseinsert\PrerenderUnicode{Ð2}intopreamble]\begingroup\let\relax\
relax\endgroup[Pleaseinsert\PrerenderUnicode{Ð1⁄2}intopreamble]\begingroup\let\relax\
relax\endgroup[Pleaseinsert\PrerenderUnicode{Ð3⁄4}intopreamble]-\begingroup\let\
relax\relax\endgroup[Pleaseinsert\PrerenderUnicode{Ð ̧}intopreamble]-\begingroup\
let\relax\relax\endgroup[Pleaseinsert\PrerenderUnicode{с}intopreamble]\begingroup\
let\relax\relax\endgroup[Pleaseinsert\PrerenderUnicode{Ð2}intopreamble]\begingroup\
let\relax\relax\endgroup[Pleaseinsert\PrerenderUnicode{Ðμ}intopreamble]\begingroup\
let\relax\relax\endgroup[Pleaseinsert\PrerenderUnicode{т}intopreamble]\begingroup\
let\relax\relax\endgroup[Pleaseinsert\PrerenderUnicode{с}intopreamble]\begingroup\
let\relax\relax\endgroup[Pleaseinsert\PrerenderUnicode{Ðo}intopreamble]\begingroup\
let\relax\relax\endgroup[Pleaseinsert\PrerenderUnicode{Ð3⁄4}intopreamble]-\
begingroup\let\relax\relax\endgroup[Pleaseinsert\PrerenderUnicode{Ð3⁄4}intopreamble]
\begingroup\let\relax\relax\endgroup[Pleaseinsert\PrerenderUnicode{б}intopreamble]
\begingroup\let\relax\relax\endgroup[Pleaseinsert\PrerenderUnicode{р}intopreamble]
\begingroup\let\relax\relax\endgroup[Pleaseinsert\PrerenderUnicode{а}intopreamble]
\begingroup\let\relax\relax\endgroup[Pleaseinsert\PrerenderUnicode{з}intopreamble]
\begingroup\let\relax\relax\endgroup[Pleaseinsert\PrerenderUnicode{Ð3⁄4}intopreamble]
\begingroup\let\relax\relax\endgroup[Pleaseinsert\PrerenderUnicode{Ð2}intopreamble]
\begingroup\let\relax\relax\endgroup[Pleaseinsert\PrerenderUnicode{а}intopreamble]
\begingroup\let\relax\relax\endgroup[Pleaseinsert\PrerenderUnicode{Ð1⁄2}intopreamble]
\begingroup\let\relax\relax\endgroup[Pleaseinsert\PrerenderUnicode{Ð ̧}intopreamble]
\begingroup\let\relax\relax\endgroup[Pleaseinsert\PrerenderUnicode{Ðμ}intopreamble]D

edit: the problem is solved - i've used URL Encoding to convert the cyrilic chars :)

Answer 3

If you're happy not to use the \url command (i.e., you'll need to break lines manually) you can do the following in regular LaTeX:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[T2A]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\begin{document}
\texttt{http://www.pravoslavie.bg/Възпитание/Духовно-и-светско-образование}
\end{document}

If you need to get the hyperlinks working, my only suggestion for now is to use either XeTeX or LuaTeX to be able to use proper unicode input/output. Something like the following produces at least the correct-looking output in XeTeX, although the hyperlink itself is broken for some reason :(

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec,hyperref}
\setmonofont{Arial Unicode MS}
\begin{document}
\url{http://www.pravoslavie.bg/Възпитание/Духовно-и-светско-образование}
\end{document}

Answer 4

If it is, as the other posters seem to assume, a charset issue, make sure the character encoding for the bibtex source and the tex document match. Cf. Q#1635788: Different encoding of latex and bibtex files. You don't need to make the character encodings both be utf8; is should think that latin-5 or KOI8-R would both work, but it is the best supported.

If it isn't, than as per my comment above: look at the software chain that you are using: editor, makefiles, &c, to see if something is doing unwanted URL escaping for you. Then deal ruthlessly with the offending software.