Subject: bug#34684: 26.1; Strange characters when inserting date

From: Robert Pluim <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2019 11:00:01 +0100

Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:

>> Iʼm assuming thereʼs an issue with buffer-file-coding-system or
>> similar.
>
> Unlikely: buffer-file-coding-system has no effect whatsoever on the
> text that is inserted into a buffer, it only has effect when you want
> to save the buffer or send it to some sub-process.
>
> It could be some snafu in Org, though, e.,g. if it doesn't know how to
> support that value of $LANG.  In any case, should be reported to Org
> developers first.

org-time-stamp just calls essentially

(insert (format-time-string "<%Y-%m-%d %a>" (current-time)))

so itʼs hard to see how this could be an issue in Org.

Does this happen when running 'emacs -Q'?

Robert