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

[Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>]

On 02.12.02 Marc SCHAEFER (schaefer@alphanet.ch) wrote:

Hi,

> 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}.
> 
Well, I wouldn't reduce that to \today, as today (june) everything
works fine. :-| My minimal example looks like:

\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
\begin{tabbing}
\hspace{4cm} \kill
\'e\`e\\
\end{tabbing}
\'e\`e
\end{document}

Does that show up your behaviour? That would mean, nobody can use
accents in tabbing-environments. I can't imagine, that nobody noticed
this until now...
I guess with failing you mean, that the accents are not displayed
correctly in the tabbing environment.

Hilmar
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