<div dir="ltr"><div>Philip asked<br> <br>> is why quotes might be expected to work when we are dealing<br>
> with TeX.<br><br></div>Mainly because they have worked that way for \input for a long time<br><div><br><br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
foo^^20bar<br>
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</font></span></blockquote></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">I wouldn't expect ^^ notation to work, Here you are looking before you have loaded the format so ^ has catcode 12 and in places where ^^ does work it is changed to a space very early \input a^^20b is same as \input a b and inputs a.tex and typesets b (and not the same as \input "a b" which inputs "a b.tex"<br>
<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">David<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div></div></div>