I admit it. I admit everything. I'm the guily one for the whole mess
about XeTeX!
http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Encodings_and_Regimes_in_XeTeX
Some time ago Hans has decided to ignore \enableregime in XeTeX. I
could have written more (and cite things), but I'm in a hurry right
now and I will probably be offline for the whole weekend.
The wiki pages need a massive adaption! Really.
On 4/13/07, Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky
Hello Mojca,
And what is more, you have said that other input regimes should work as well, but the following fragment doesn't work. (arbitrary symbols are substituted)
I said that it could have worked ... I didn't say that it actually works ;) \enableregime should be adapted in my opinion. I had a patch already, but I don't have time to look for it right now. The following should work though: Either \XeTeXinputencoding "bytes" % uncomment the line which prevents loading of regimes in XeTeX \enableregime[cp1251] or \XeTeXinputencoding "cp1251"
\enableregime[cp1251] \definetypeface[myface][rm][Xserif][Times New Roman] \setupbodyfont[myface, 12pt] \starttext Hello World! Привет! \stoptext
(I really saved the file in that encoding - Windows Cyrillic, 1251)
It is quite disappointing, because that encoding would cover my English-Russian-Ukrainian typesetting needs fully. UTF is amazing but not as convenient as cp1251.
There should really be no problem in adapting the \enableregime to cover those regimes (it's really a simple patch). From the fact that Hans added quite some new files and definitions during transition to luaTeX ... I guess that he might still be willing to adapt that behaviour in XeTeX as well. Mojca