we (I and Miriam, who is in CC, but she should be now on the list) are setting up our ConTeXt installation  in order to (re-)typeset the academic journal we are editors.

We are both on macosx: the idea is to use XeTeX. 

I installed on Miriam's macbook mactex, and  I also have updated it from the mactex site. Exactly like mine.

We're experiencing this problem:

we have an utf 8 text and I'm compiling with no problem on my machine. On Miriam's one 

1. if we compile with ConTeXt-pdftex (specifying the regime) we are having little black boxes near the non-ascii char (i.e. an accented glyph is rendered as non accented glyph + box)

2. if we compile with XeConTeXt the resulting pdf simply skips the accents (e.g an accented glyph is rendered non accented)

More:

We can't do  

ctxtools --updatecontext

it complaint it cannot fetch the zip

Differences: 

1. I am on macbook pro, she's on macbook (both on 2007 intel)

2. I'm using the English version of the macosx system, she's using the Italian one.

Many thanks

-a-