I am not in math mode. I am not sure what happened, but somehow I must have send my reply to the wrong thread. I have since send it to the correct thread, see \uchar and italics question.

On 18 Jan 2006, at 08:47, Taco Hoekwater wrote:

sjoerd siebinga wrote:
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> On 17 Jan 2006, at 23:54, Hans Hagen wrote:
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>> does {\it blabla} give italic?
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> Yes it does. But when I place the \uchar{1}{01} inbetween the bla bla's
> the glyph remains regular.

Are you in math mode, by any chance?
An very small example with wrong versus right would be very helpful.

Cheers, Taco