Bug#171414: tetex-base: \today in tabbing doesn't work properly with french accents

[Marc SCHAEFER <schaefer@alphanet.ch>]

Package: tetex-base
Version: 1.0.2+20011202-2
Severity: important
Tags: patch

\shadowbox{%
   \begin{minipage}{\textwidth}
      \begin{tabbing}
      \hspace{4cm} \= \hspace{6cm} \= \hspace{5cm} \= \kill
      \bf{No Client:}  \>  774 \\
      \bf{Date facture:} \> \today \\
      \end{tabbing}
   \end{minipage}
}

fails today (2 décembre 2002) with \usepackage[frenchb]{babel}.

Fix:
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage[frenchb]{babel}

and also modify /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/babel/frenchb.ldf
definition for today to add accents directly as éû instead
of \'e, \^u.

Apparently this issue is only happening in tabbing, a straight
\today in text doesn't fail.

-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux defian 2.4.18 #1 Mon Aug 12 18:03:56 MEST 2002 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=fr_CH

Versions of packages tetex-base depends on:
ii  dpkg                          1.9.21     Package maintenance system for Deb
ii  texinfo                       4.1-2      Documentation system for on-line i