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

I found a simpler approach, which works for me:

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

Answer 2

For comments only, you can use the texcl option:

\lstset{language=C++,texcl=true} 

Than your comments become Latex and you can use "special" characters

\begin{lstlisting} int iLink = 0x01; // Paramètre entrée \end{lstlisting}