Am Montag, den 02.05.2011, 17:30 +0200 schrieb Paul Menzel:
> Am Sonntag, den 01.05.2011, 15:09 -0400 schrieb Aditya Mahajan:
> > On Sun, 1 May 2011, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
> > 
> > > On Sun, 1 May 2011, Peter Münster wrote:
> > >
> > >> So, whatever the original enviroment is, context and/or luatex sets
> > >> LC_COLLATE=C
> > >> LC_CTYPE=C
> > >> LC_NUMERIC=C
> > >
> > > Confirmed. Now the question is, why does this cause pandoc to behave 
> > > strangely.
> > 
> > Perhaps due to a old bug in pandoc
> > http://code.google.com/p/pandoc/issues/detail?id=233
> > http://www.readmespot.com/question/f/163755/pandoc-locale-problems
> > 
> > This was fixed in pandoc 1.6 that is why I don't see it. Paul, you will 
> > have to manually update pandoc.
> 
> Thank you very much for all your help. I will wait for the updated
> Pandoc and retest. In the mean time I am going to use t-rst.

Pandoc 1.8.1.1 is available in the Debian Sid/unstable repositories [1]
now. I tested the minimal example and after adding the

	\setupbodyfont[times]

as you did, everything works as expected.

Thank you very much and sorry for noise, because this was an external
problem.


Thanks,

Paul


[1] http://packages.qa.debian.org/p/pandoc/news/20110526T214713Z.html