Christopher Creutzig said this at Thu, 22 Sep 2005 18:25:01 +0200:

>Sure.  But editing the file is oh so much easier when I can just type
>\def\japChapterNumber#1{µ⁄#1’¬}
>than if I have to look up the unicode numbers first and type
>\def\japChapterNumber{\uchar{123}{44}#1\uchar{122}{224}}

True, but this is scriptable...

> That implies that ConTeXt should switch off all conversions when
>running in XeTeX and seeing \startregime[utf], right? 

That's a good point, actually. In fact, XeTeX now has its own regime-
like mechanism (\XeTeXinputencoding "charset-nam e"), that someone could/
should address, either bypassing ConTeXt's existing regimes, or
supplementing them. I'm not really active in that space right now, so I
can't do it, but I'd be willing to give hints to someone who wants this
feature.

adam
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