[NTG-context] format generation -- again!

[Thomas A. Schmitz]

All,

I just hit a snag in generating formats with --make --all. It works  
flawlessly on my computers running Mac OS X or linux, but ALan Bowen  
has a problem where .pat files with Unicode characters aren't  
recognized:

(/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/tex/context/patterns/lang-us.hyp)
language        : patterns agr for agr loaded (n=24,e=agr,m=agr)
(/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/tex/context/patterns/lang-agr.pat
! Nonletter.
\rawcharacter ...r\or   \or
\or
     \or
\or     \or
                                                   \or \or \or \or  
\or \...
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?

I compared the cont-en.log of our computers; the only real difference  
is the beginning:

My log:
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.141592-1.40.0-beta-20060213 (Web2C 7.5.5)  
(INITEX)  26 MAY 2006 19:42
entering extended mode
\write18 enabled.
(/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/web2c/natural.tcx)
***cont-en
(/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/tex/context/base/cont-en.tex
(/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/tex/context/base/context.tex
(/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/tex/context/base/syst-pln.tex

Alan's log:
This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.30.4-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.5) (INITEX)   
24 MAY 2006 06:40
entering extended mode
***cont-en.ini
(/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/tex/context/config/cont-en.ini
(/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/tex/context/base/cont-en.tex
(/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/tex/context/base/context.tex
(/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/tex/context/base/syst-pln.tex

Both have the latest release. So the only difference that really  
could matter:
1. older version of pdf(e)tex;
2. natural.tcx is not called.

Can anybody help? I'm unable to reproduce the problem here; I can  
generate formats both with texmfstart texexec --make --all and with  
fmtutil-sys --byfmt cont-en.

Best

Thomas