> To Arthur: if it was completely impossible to do it, then > inputenc/fontenc packages would have no chance to work at all, so > there must be a solution,
I don’t agree with that reasoning: inputenc and fontenc are two
separate steps, while here you’re trying to use ^^e1 both as an active
character and as a letter within the same file, indeed within the very
same macro. I also feel somehow that it should be theoretically
possible, however; but see the solution I suggested.
Arthur
