bug#13060: 24.3.50; unable to type chinese in this build-version, all i get are rectangle symbols

[Rembrandt Wolpert]

On 12/2/12 10:12 AM, luthur xue wrote:
> switch to chinese input method, language environment is UTF-8, i
> all i got are strange rectangle symbols.
> 
> 
> In GNU Emacs 24.3.50.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin12.2.0, NS
> apple-appkit-1187.34) of 2012-11-29 on hanxiang Bzr revision:
> 111026 dmantipov@yandex.ru-20121129060021-hu9duyqbugd1el99 
> Windowing system distributor `Apple', version 10.3.1187 Configured
> using: `configure '--with-ns''
> 
> Important settings: locale-coding-system: nil default
> enable-multibyte-characters: t
> 
> Major mode: Python
> 
> Minor modes in effect: global-hl-line-mode: t 
> delete-selection-mode: t yas/global-mode: t yas/minor-mode: t 
> global-auto-complete-mode: t auto-complete-mode: t ropemacs-mode:
> t flymake-mode: t global-linum-mode: t linum-mode: t 
> show-paren-mode: t desktop-save-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 line-number-mode:
> t transient-mark-mode: t
> 
> Recent input: M-x r e p o r <tab> <return>
> 
> Recent messages: Loading
> /Users/binleixue/.emacs.d/emacs-for-python/extensions/snippet-helpers.el
> (source)...done Loading
> /Users/binleixue/.emacs.d/emacs-for-python/epy-init.el
> (source)...done Desktop: File
> "/Users/binleixue/Documents/octopress/source/_posts/2012-12-03-ai-yi-ge-ren.markdown"
> no longer exists. Can't guess python-indent-offset, using defaults:
> 4 highlight-indentation with indent-width 4 [2 times] Package assoc
> is obsolete! Opening
> [/Users/binleixue/Envs/tradeplatform/TradePlatform/tradeplatform/]
> project ... done Wrote /Users/binleixue/.emacs.desktop.lock 
> Desktop: 2 buffers restored, 1 failed to restore. For information
> about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a.
> 
> Load-path shadows: 
> /Users/binleixue/.emacs.d/emacs-for-python/extensions/python hides
> /Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/Resources/lisp/progmodes/python
> 
> Features: (shadow sort gnus-util mail-extr emacsbug message
> format-spec rfc822 mml mml-sec mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode
> mail-parse rfc2231 mailabbrev gmm-utils mailheader sendmail rfc2047
> rfc2045 ietf-drums mm-util mail-prsvr mail-utils zencoding-mode
> server highlight-indentation hl-line epy-init epy-bindings epy-nose
> nose epy-editing delsel eproject dired yasnippet dropdown-list
> help-mode assoc open-next-line smart-operator cc-mode cc-fonts
> cc-guess cc-menus cc-cmds cc-styles cc-align cc-engine cc-vars
> cc-defs ido epy-completion auto-complete-config auto-complete popup
> epy-python ropemacs byte-opt warnings bytecomp byte-compile cconv
> flymake easy-mmode compile pymacs advice help-fns python skeleton
> derived cl-macs gv rx edmacro kmacro easymenu cl nadvice cl-lib
> comint ring ansi-color epy-setup linum paren desktop cus-start
> cus-load time-date tooltip ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type
> mwheel ns-win tool-bar dnd fontset image regexp-opt fringe
> tabulated-list newcomment lisp-mode register page menu-bar 
> rfn-eshadow timer select scroll-bar mouse jit-lock font-lock
> syntax facemenu font-core frame cham georgian utf-8-lang misc-lang
> vietnamese tibetan thai tai-viet lao korean japanese hebrew greek
> romanian slovak czech european ethiopic indian cyrillic chinese
> case-table epa-hook jka-cmpr-hook help simple abbrev minibuffer
> loaddefs button faces cus-face macroexp files text-properties
> overlay sha1 md5 base64 format env code-pages mule custom widget
> hashtable-print-readable backquote make-network-process ns
> multi-tty emacs)
> 
> 
> 

It's not only Chinese -- basically *all* non-western writing systems
are invisible in the windowed NS version. See bug#12928: 24.3.50;
24.3.50: non-western ( multilingual) text invisible (OSX - NS). The
24.3.50 build of 2012-11-06 still displays non-western scripts,
afterwards it becomes blocks of emptiness.