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September 11, 2023
Question

Spanish characters in hyperlinks not working

  • September 11, 2023
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Is there a workaround on how to add hyperlinks directly into Acrobat that have Spanish characters? The browser is converting ñ to %F1. 

The same linke works when exported through InDesign; Links from InDesign to PDF are not converted in the browser. However, when trying to add new links through Acrobat, the browser converts the accented characters to unicode. 

Through Acrobat, Edit Link, the hyperlink appears correctly. And looks identical to the link exported from InDesign. The only difference is that the link created in Acrobat will convert to unicode in the browser. 

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Amal.
Community Manager
Community Manager
January 30, 2024

Hi there

 

Hope you are doing well and thanks for reaching out.

 

Please update the application to the new version 23.08.20470 from the help menu > check for updates and reboot the computer once.

 

Also try to export the PDF to MS Word document and recreat the PDF from the MS Word application via the Acrobat ribbon present in the MS Word toolbar and see if that works.

 

Let us know how it goes.

 

~Amal

Participant
February 22, 2024

Hi there,

 

I've tried that. Unfortunately, the only fix was to correct the hyperlinks in InDesign and re-export. This was frustrating as I made a lot of traction on remediating the PDF for accessibility.

Is there any way to prevent hyperlinks with accented characters (diacritic) from converting into unicode characters? This is feeling exclusive to non-English users. 

Amal.
Community Manager
Community Manager
February 23, 2024

Hi there

 

Please go through the correct answer marked in the similar discussion https://community.adobe.com/t5/acrobat-discussions/why-does-%C3%B1-changes-to-special-character/m-p/11858512#M300020 and see if that works.

 

~Amal