[texhax] plain TeX: separate items by comma in \write environment

[Philip Taylor (RHUoL)]

Rodolfo Medina wrote:
> Hi, Philip... hi all.
> If, in place of `Now', `is' etc, I put some accented name, e.g. \'Erik Satie, I
> get error: system complains that no accent is allowed to appear between \csname
> and \endcsname...  Any solution...?

As (almost) always, XeTeX+Unicode is the answer :  thus not \'Erik Satie 
but Érik Satie
** Phil.