Bug#171414: Some more comments on the bug

[schaefer@alphanet.ch (Marc SCHAEFER)]

Apparently the problem is a consequence of two subproblems:

   1. in tabbing, it is not allowed to use \' and \` accents
      since this is interpreted as `align left' and `align right'

   2. \today from the french package used \' and \` and others
      instead of using \usepackage[latin1]{inputenc} and
      é è directly.

So there is apparently no fix, because:

   - modifying \today: this may fail if the user hasn't done
     a \usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}.

   - tabbing behaves correctly to this specification.

So the final word is: don't use \today or other macros that could expand
to \' or \` in a tabbing environment.

You can close this bug.

(thanks to Christophe PYTHOUD for pointing that out).