Dear knights of the round table, I've been using a very old bib module up to now, with lots of personal tweaks, workarounds etc. (mission-critical issues--no time 2 deal with painful upgrades); now I'm starting fresh with the latest. Here is one issue: The \startpublication[a= ] option seems to cause m-bib to choke on some accents. Here is an example: ============test-bib.bbl=============== \startpublication[k=ahsaif, t=book, a=\AHSAI, y=1856, s=\AHSAI1856] %\author[\v Say\h h]{A\.hmad Ibn Zayni \Al-D\={i}n}[A.]{}{\Ah} \author[\v Say\h h]{A\.hmad Ibn Zayni \Al-D\={i}n}[A.]{}{\Ah} \title{\v Sar\.hu \~al-Faw\={a}\'id} \pubname{n.p.} \city{Tabriz} \pubyear{1856} \stoppublication \startpublication[k=ahsaijk, t=book, a=\AHSAI, y=1856--59, s=\AHSAI1856--59] \author[\v Say\h h]{A\.hmad Ibn Zayni \Al-D\={i}n}[A.]{}{\Ah} \title{Jaw\={a}mi\`u \~al-Kalim} \pubname{n.p.} \note{Two volumes} \city{Tabriz} \pubyear{1856--59} \stoppublication ======================================= and here is the accompanying tex file ============test-bib.tex=============== \setupoutput[pdftex] \usemodule[bib] \def\AHSAI{A\d hs\=a'\~\i} %\def\AHSAI{A\d hs\=a'i} \input test-bib.bbl \starttext \cite[ahsaif] \cite[ahsaijk] \stoptext ======================================= In this example the \startpublication[a= ] option chokes on \~. Any help/chivalry will be appreciated! Best Idris Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523