diff --git a/bibtexbrowser.php b/bibtexbrowser.php
index a19e689..2f715a6 100755
--- a/bibtexbrowser.php
+++ b/bibtexbrowser.php
@@ -824,7 +824,14 @@ function latex2html($line) {
   // handling \url{....}
   // often used in howpublished for @misc
   $line = preg_replace('/\\\\url\{(.*)\}/U','<a href="\\1">\\1</a>', $line);
-  
+
+  // Friday, April 01 2011
+  // added support for accented i
+  // for instance \`\i
+  // see http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Accents
+  // " the letters "i" and "j" require special treatment when they are given accents because it is often desirable to replace the dot with the accent. For this purpose, the commands \i and \j can be used to produce dotless letters."
+  $line = preg_replace('/\\\\([ij])/i','\\1', $line);
+
   $line = char2html($line,"'",'a',"acute");
   $line = char2html($line,"'",'e',"acute");
   $line = char2html($line,"'",'i',"acute");
diff --git a/test/input/bibacid-iso8859.bib b/test/input/bibacid-iso8859.bib
index 6fbae89..b1dff94 100755
--- a/test/input/bibacid-iso8859.bib
+++ b/test/input/bibacid-iso8859.bib
@@ -189,6 +189,12 @@ MRREVIEWER = {Jean-Fran{\c{c}}ois Clouet},
  year = {2011},
 }
 
+%% testing the accented i and j
+@INPROCEEDINGS {paper000,
+ title    = {Some publication title},
+ author   = {F\`\irst A\`{\i}thor and S{\`\i}cond Author\`\I},
+ year = {2011},
+}