That did the job, thanks!
-----Original Message----- From: Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, March 11, 2019 5:55 PM To: Wong, Philip <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: Re: bug#34684: 26.1; Strange characters when inserting date > From: "Wong, Philip" <[email protected]> > CC: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>, "[email protected]" > <[email protected]> > Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2019 17:35:05 +0000 > > Here is the output in the order of commands you mentioned: > <2019-03-11 ¬P´Á¤@> > > For the other commands, there is no output in the actual buffer) but on the > bottom it says.... > 3076 (#o6004, #xc04) > "?? (??,???????)" > 1033 (#o2011, #x409) > 3076 (#o6004, #xc04) > ["???" "???" "???" "???" "???" "???" "???"] Thanks, I think I understand what happens. The problem is that your locale produces day names that cannot be represented with codepage 1252, so you get garbled strings and question marks instead. Does it help to change the value of locale-coding-system, like below? M-: (setq locale-coding-system 'cp950)
