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.

Aditya