[pdftex] special characters in \pdfinfo

[Heiko Oberdiek]

On Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 08:39:45AM +0200, Holger Daszler wrote:
> 
> I have to use german special characters, like ae, oe, ue or
> sz (/ss, "s). This works perfect with pdftex in the document body.
> 
> If I use these special characters in \pdfinfo (like in /Author or
> /Title) the ae, ue, oe appears correctly in Acrobat-Reader's File ->
> Document Properties -> General.
> 
> But not the sz (/ss).
> 
> Whats the reason and how to change it?

Your description is not clear for me, perhaps a minimal
test file helps.
* Are you using plain-TeX, LaTeX, ...?
* If you are using LaTeX, why are you using \pdfinfo,
  packages hyperref handles the umlauts correctly, if
  given after package is loaded:
\usepackage{ngerman}% or [ngerman]{babel}
% also inputenc is supported for 8-bit characters
\usepackage{hyperref}
\hypersetup{%
  pdfauthor={Holger Da"sler},%
  pdftitle={...},%
  ...
}

Yours sincerely
  Heiko <oberdiek at uni-freiburg.de>