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 wrote:

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