Brian Gernhardt [off-list ref] writes:
I wonder if there is something non-portable about the bibtex
filter? (The HTML filter as well, since that errors on my machine
too.)
Yeah, that I didn't think of, but is a possibility (part of (1)
above).
The HTML one is "[^<>= \t]+" and
the Bibtex one is "[={}\"]|[^={}\" \t]+"
and both will be used with "|[^[:space:]]|[\xc0-\xff][\x80-\xbf]+"
appended and given to regcomp with REG_EXTENDED|REG_NEWLINE.
Nothing jumps at me that is common to these two but not shared by
other patterns.