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ID	310🔗
Submitted by:	Nicola Talbot 🦜
Date:	2025-08-11 13:02:53
Last update:	2025-08-13 09:00:35
Status	Closed (Not a Bug)
Category	glossaries
Version	4.7
Summary	\printnoidxglossary has stopped working with 'Improper alphabetic constant' error
Cross Ref	309

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Description

The provided example is now failing with the error:

! Improper alphabetic constant.
<to be read again> 
                   \q__text_recursion_tail

This is due to the \datatool_get_first_grapheme:nN issue #309 (Bug Tracker).

MWE

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% arara: pdflatex
\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{glossaries}

\makenoidxglossaries

\newglossaryentry{elan}{name={élan},description={}}

\begin{document}
\gls{elan}.

\printnoidxglossaries
\end{document}

Evaluation

Since the problem isn't actually in glossaries, I'm closing this as "Not a bug". The underlying issue has been fixed in LaTeX3.

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