Robert Pluim <rpl...@gmail.com> writes: > Eli Zaretskii <e...@gnu.org> writes: > >>> From: "Wong, Philip" <philip.w...@warwick.ac.uk> >>> Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2019 14:16:25 +0000 >>> >>> When I insert a date by pressing CTRL+C then period then enter I get >>> “<2019-02-28 ¶g¥|>”. >>> >>> I’m not sure what the strange character is (¶g¥|), can someone help? >> >> Please show a complete recipe, starting from "emacs -Q", to reproduce >> the issue. When I type "Ctrl-C ." in "emacs -Q", Emacs says that >> sequence is not bound to any command, so I wonder what is needed to >> "insert a date" in your scenario. > > From the output, this is 'org-time-stamp', which produces > <2019-02-28 Thu> here. Based on this in the report: > > Important settings: > value of $LANG: ZHH > locale-coding-system: cp1252 > > Iʼm assuming thereʼs an issue with buffer-file-coding-system or > similar. If I do > > LANG=zh_HK src/emacs -Q > (require 'org) > (org-time-stamp) => <2019-02-28 四>
That means "four", aka "Thursday" :)
