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From: Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Tables: remote reference fails with umlaut (and in other cases)
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2016 11:40:11 -0500
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Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> writes:

> On Tuesday, 19 Jan 2016 at 14:10, Karl Voit wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> Either I found a bug when referring to other table rows or I don't
>> understand the behavior of following example tables. My expectation
>> was that the first column of the second table is exactly the same as
>> the first column of the first table:
>>
>> #+NAME: 2016-01-19-srctbl
>> | Testdata |
>>
>> |----------|
>> | foobar   |
>> | fooübar  |
>> | fooßbar  |
>> | 1er      |
>> | 23,42    |
>> | 23.42    |
>>
>> | Result   | Expected Result | Comparison     |
>> |----------+-----------------+----------------|
>> | foobar   | foobar          | OK             |
>> | #ERROR   | fooübar         | fail           |
>> | #ERROR   | fooßbar         | fail           |
>> | er       | 1er             | fail           |
>> | 23.42    | 23.42           | OK             |
>> | (23, 42) | 23,42           | probably fail? |
>>
>> #+TBLFM: $1=remote(2016-01-19-srctbl,@@#$1)
>>
>> Thanks for clearing things up!
>
> I cannot get this to work either but I do think you want to enclose the
> remote() within (identity) to copy values and not try to evaluate an
> expression, as noted in the info page:
>
> $1=(identity remote(2016-01-19-srctbl,@@#$1))
>
> Also, I don't think you want an indirection using #.
>
> But I cannot get this to work so I could be completely off base...

You are missing a quote:

#+TBLFM: $1='(identity remote(2016-01-19-srctbl,@@#$1))

works for me.

Org-mode version 8.3.3 (release_8.3.3-456-g164555)

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Nick