Werner LEMBERG <[log in to unmask]> writes: > > Package inputenc translates the input characters that it controls > > into TeX code: ^^b9 becomes: > > \show^^b9 > > ->\IeC {\i } > > Actually 4 tokens instead of one ^^b9 token. > > It is fairly easy to catch this case while the accent macro is looking > for its argument -- I just wonder why it is missing... Why what is missing? -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum