UTF8 in TextField's value

[kberry]

(reposted from https://puszcza.gnu.org.ua/bugs/index.php?204, author Thorsten )

Hi. I have the following packages:

\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}

When I create a textfield with

\TextField[name=test, value=Groß]{test}

the value shows as "GroT1ss"

How can I fix this?

[u-fischer]

The problem is not really related to utf8, \ss and similar commands break too.

Imho the problem is that the field value is not passed through \pdfstringdef. This is seems to solve the problem (but it is not very thoroughly tested):

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{textcomp}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\makeatletter
\define@key{Field}{value}{%
  \Hy@pdfstringdef\Fld@value{#1}%new
  %\def\Fld@value{#1}%old
}
\makeatother
\begin{document}

When I create a textfield with
\TextField[name=test, value=Größü€\ss]{test}
\end{document}

[davidcarlisle]

@u-fischer thanks that looks about right, I'd seen it was unrelated to input encoding but not traced the interesting path the various escape mechanisms take.

[davidcarlisle]

hyperref v6.83p uploaded to CTAN