> it's nearly impossible to get this working for all features 
> (keep in mind that tex has no real feature to map font chars 
> to other font chars)  esp those with special chars. 

I know this is not a trivial question due to the number
of encodings and languages. However, what makes me a bit
puzzled is that the following works fine:

  \title{\WORD{Text with едц etc.} }

So, the mechanism behind \WORD works well. It is just that
I cannot figure out how to use it. I emphasize that it used
to work fine even in the \setuphead definition, but that
was with an old version (April '05).

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> works ok here (can you try the latest version - beta?) 

The version I am trying to use is rather a fresh one:

 TeXExec 5.4.3 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005

               texexec : TeXExec 5.4.3 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005
               texutil : TeXUtil 9.0.1 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1992-2006
                   tex : unknown
               context : ver: 2006.03.25 13:21
               cont-en : unknown
               cont-nl : unknown

Has there been any change after that? If not, I could brew up a
minimal example to illustrate the problem.

BR,

- Ville