Taco Hoekwater wrote:
As MkIV does not run bibtex on input files automatically, I run 'bibtex' manually once ('bibtex bibtest'), then 'context' ('context bibtest') gives 'Invalid UTF-8 sequence' error.
This is caused by the fact that bibtex doesn't understand UTF-8 at all (it is only able to do something useful with byte encodings). I have no immediate solution for you, the best advice I can offer right now is for you to manually fix the bbl file after running bibtex.
The whole database is converted in one go, and there is never a need to re-run bibtex unless when you delete the bbl by accident, so this is a single (laborious) step (under the assumption that the bib file is finished already). A long-term solution will depend on a more modern bib database processor (like J.M. Hufflen's mlbibtex).
I didn't think about bibtex as a separate package from old times, was too carried away by luatex fancies. Thanks for clarifying this out. I've used the following workaround: write bib file in 8-bit encoding (koi8-r for example), run bibtex on it once, then convert bbl to UTF-8. This works perfectly, should have guessed it earlier. I don't change bib files frequently, so this solution suits me well. -- Regards, Oleg Kolosov