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At 07:39 PM 2/9/2003 +0100, you wrote:
>Even this goes wrong:
>
>\edef\mychar{=C4}\mychar

\edef'ing is always a bit tricky, especially for some low level tex

for a solution, see previous post (or in addition to that:)

\def\safeedef#1#2%
   {\begingroup
    \the\everysafeexpanded\long\xdef\@@expanded{\noexpand#2}%
    \endgroup
    \let#1\@@expanded}

\def\safexdef#1#2%
   {\begingroup
    \the\everysafeexpanded\long\xdef\@@expanded{\noexpand#2}%
    \endgroup
    \global\let#1\@@expanded}

Hans
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