diff --git a/src/tex2lyx/Parser.cpp b/src/tex2lyx/Parser.cpp
index 23a1bf1a01..7a9fff1372 100644
--- a/src/tex2lyx/Parser.cpp
+++ b/src/tex2lyx/Parser.cpp
@@ -319,11 +319,10 @@ Token const Parser::next_next_token()
 		return dummy;
 	// If tokenize_one() has not been called after the last get_token() we
 	// need to tokenize two more tokens.
-	if (pos_ >= tokens_.size()) {
+	if (pos_ >= tokens_.size())
+		tokenize_one();
+	if (pos_ + 1 >= tokens_.size())
 		tokenize_one();
-		if (pos_ + 1 >= tokens_.size())
-			tokenize_one();
-	}
 	return pos_ + 1 < tokens_.size() ? tokens_[pos_ + 1] : dummy;
 }
 
diff --git a/src/tex2lyx/test/test-insets.lyx.lyx b/src/tex2lyx/test/test-insets.lyx.lyx
index f7e70f8432..d598d406b6 100644
--- a/src/tex2lyx/test/test-insets.lyx.lyx
+++ b/src/tex2lyx/test/test-insets.lyx.lyx
@@ -6635,6 +6635,14 @@ script with
 .
 \end_layout
 
+\begin_layout Standard
+latex2writer outputs quotes in braces like 
+\begin_inset Quotes ers
+\end_inset
+
+. We swallow the, but this was one broken (bug 8903).
+\end_layout
+
 \begin_layout Section
 Mathematics
 \begin_inset Index idx
diff --git a/src/tex2lyx/test/test-insets.tex b/src/tex2lyx/test/test-insets.tex
index ebc7d619aa..ea33b6646f 100644
--- a/src/tex2lyx/test/test-insets.tex
+++ b/src/tex2lyx/test/test-insets.tex
@@ -654,6 +654,9 @@ builtin \textasciicircum % with a comment
 A sub\textsubscript{sc\emph{ript}} and super\textsuperscript{script
 with $a^2+b^2=c^2$ math}.
 
+latex2writer outputs quotes in braces like {\textquoteright}. We swallow the,
+but this was one broken (bug 8903).
+
 
 \section{Mathematics\index{Mathematics}}