Test file: \enableregime[il1] \starttext Problems « with » spaces. \stoptext You will notice that the space after » gets globbed. Bug in symb-glm: \startencoding [default] \definecharacter leftguillemot {\symbol[xleftguillemot]} \definecharacter rightguillemot {\symbol[xrightguillemot]} \definecharacter guilsingleleft {\symbol[xguilsingleleft]} \definecharacter guilsingleright {\symbol[xguilsingleright]} \stopencoding should be \startencoding [default] \definecharacter leftguillemot {\symbol[xleftguillemot]\relax} \definecharacter rightguillemot {\symbol[xrightguillemot]\relax} \definecharacter guilsingleleft {\symbol[xguilsingleleft]\relax} \definecharacter guilsingleright {\symbol[xguilsingleright]\relax} \stopencoding because now \symbol makes forward character lookup looking for a second optional parameter. -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta