[NTG-context] accented capital in XML, how to smash it?

Hello list, I have problems with accented capitals like "È" adding some vertical space to their lines. Is there a way to \smash them automatically? That's because I'm typesetting XML and not directly using ConTeXt. I tried an automatic translation with \usemodule[translate] \translateinput[È][\smash{È}] ... \enableinputtranslation but it does not work.