bug#13283: 24.3.50; on PPC Tiger the HELLO buffer shows no non-Latin characters

[Peter Dyballa]

Hello!

There are a few exceptions: Greek Γ, IPA ŋ, the • in Mathematics…

The reason is that all glyphs are taken from nil:-apple- 
Latin_Modern_Mono-medium-normal-normal-*-10-*-*-*-p-0-iso10646-1 and  
no other font is tried or used. Switching to a dozen other monospaced  
fonts (for example Monaco, Andale Mono, Courier, Monospace, Bitstream  
Vera Mono, Lucida Sans Typewriter from Java) leads to a frame as wide  
as the scroll-bar. GNU Freefont and Latin Modern from TeX work well.

(This behaviour can also be seen in GNU Emacs 24.2.50, but not in GNU  
Emacs 24.2. A comparison with GNU Emacs 24.3 can be performed in a  
few hours. Maybe Mac OS X, when quite old, brakes the CPU…)

In GNU Emacs 24.3.50.1 (powerpc-apple-darwin8.11.0, NS apple- 
appkit-824.48)
 of 2012-12-27 on
Bzr revision: 111341  
michael.albinus@gmx.de-20121226162218-5u40mxjdtankym19
Windowing system distributor `Apple', version 10.3.824
Configured using:
 `configure '--without-pop' '--without-sound' '--with-ns'
 '--disable-ns-self-contained' '--x-libraries=/usr/X11/lib'
 '--x-includes=/usr/X11/include'
 '--enable-locallisppath=/Library/Application
 Support/Emacs/calendar24:/Library/Application Support/Emacs'  
'CFLAGS=-g
 -ggdb3 -H -pipe -fPIC -fno-common -O0 -mcpu=7450 -mtune=7450 -maltivec
 -faltivec -mabi=altivec -malign-natural' 'CC=gcc-apple-4.2'
 'CXX=g++-apple-4.2' 'CPPFLAGS=-I/sw/include' 'LDFLAGS=-L/sw/lib -v
 -Wl,-v -Wl,-bind_at_load -Wl,-t'
 'PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/sw/lib/pkgconfig:/sw/share/pkgconfig:/usr/X11/lib/ 
pkgconfig:/usr/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/lib/pkgconfig''

Important settings:
  value of $LC_CTYPE: de_DE.UTF-8
  value of $LANG: de_DE.UTF-8
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
  default enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Fundamental

Minor modes in effect:
  TeX-PDF-mode: t
  shell-dirtrack-mode: t
  diff-auto-refine-mode: t
  show-paren-mode: t
  display-time-mode: t
  desktop-save-mode: t
  delete-selection-mode: t
  tooltip-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  tool-bar-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  blink-cursor-mode: t
  auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  buffer-read-only: t
  column-number-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t
  view-mode: t

Recent input:
y <down-mouse-1> <mouse-1> C-x k <return> s-t <ns-change-font>
C-h H <menu-bar> <help-menu> <send-emacs-bug-report>


--
Greetings

  Pete

"By filing this bug report you have challenged the honour of my  
family. Prepare to die!"