Another problem with -w

[pauloney]

On Mar 2013 George Bergman [email protected] with a copy to Paul Vojta [email protected] reported:

detex -w misbehaves with respect to "\i" (undotted i), at least on the UC Berkeley math system, which I use. Rather than giving an example in another language, let's suppose one wants to print the phrase "a bit of humor", either with an undotted i, or with an accent on the i in "bit". There are two natural ways of doing each of these, making four possibilities:

    a b\i t of humor
    a b{\i}t of humor
    a b\'\i t of humor
    a b\'{\i}t of humor

Without the -w option, detex converts each of the above lines correctly to "a bit of humor". But "detex -w" converts each of them to

    iof
    humor

Can this be fixed? Many thanks, George Bergman