---
 lib/Biber/LaTeX/Recode.pm |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- biber.orig/lib/Biber/LaTeX/Recode.pm
+++ biber/lib/Biber/LaTeX/Recode.pm
@@ -392,7 +392,7 @@
     my $re = $remap_e->{accents}{re};
 
     if ( $b =~ /$re/) {
-        return ($a eq 'i') or ($a eq 'j') ? "{\\$a}" : $a;
+        return ((($a eq 'i') or ($a eq 'j')) ? "{\\$a}" : $a);
     }
     else {
         return "{$a}"
