On Tue, 26 Feb 2008, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:

> Am 2008-02-26 um 22:27 schrieb Hans Hagen:
>> Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:
>>> Am 2008-02-26 um 20:58 schrieb Wolfgang Schuster:
>>>> 1. XeTeX has two problems with the greep pattern files (lang-
>>>> agr.pat).
>>>> (c:/w32tex/share/texmf-local/tex/context/patterns/lang-agr.pat
>>>> ! Nonletter.
>>>> l.1486 ß╝Ç2╬¢1¤ë╬┤¤àß┐¢
>>> The same with pdfTeX, as reported before, twice.
>> hm, pdftex compiles ok here
>
> I guess, you said that last time, too.
> Can you give me any hints at what I should look on my side?
> If I delete that pat file, everything runs through; if it comes back
> with the next update, it stops again.
> Is my pdfTeX too old (Version 3.141592-1.40.3 (Web2C 7.5.6) on OSX
> 10.4)?
>

I can create pdftex formats from the latest beta, using pdftex which is 
almost same as yours (on Ubuntu Hardy)

pdftex -v 
pdfTeX using libpoppler 3.141592-1.40.3-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.6)
kpathsea version 3.5.6
Copyright 2007 Peter Breitenlohner (eTeX)/Han The Thanh (pdfTeX).
Kpathsea is copyright 2007 Karl Berry and Olaf Weber.
There is NO warranty.  Redistribution of this software is
covered by the terms of both the pdfTeX using libpoppler copyright and
the Lesser GNU General Public License.
For more information about these matters, see the file
named COPYING and the pdfTeX using libpoppler source.
Primary author of pdfTeX using libpoppler: Peter Breitenlohner (eTeX)/Han 
The Thanh (pdfTeX).
Kpathsea written by Karl Berry, Olaf Weber, and others.

Compiled with libpng 1.2.15beta5; using libpng 1.2.15beta5
Compiled with zlib 1.2.3.3; using zlib 1.2.3.3
Compiled with libpoppler version 3.00

Aditya