diff --git a/src/Paragraph.cpp b/src/Paragraph.cpp
index f70a0a9a9b..f480ef726e 100644
--- a/src/Paragraph.cpp
+++ b/src/Paragraph.cpp
@@ -2854,7 +2854,7 @@ docstring Paragraph::simpleLyXHTMLOnePar(Buffer const & buf,
 				retval += inset->xhtml(xs, np);
 			}
 		} else {
-			char_type c = d->text_[getUChar(buf.params(), i)];
+			char_type c = getUChar(buf.params(), i);
 
 			if (style.pass_thru)
 				xs << c;