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26.1; Strange characters when inserting date

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From: "Wong, Philip" <Philip.Wong <at> warwick.ac.uk>
To: Robert Pluim <rpluim <at> gmail.com>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, "34684 <at> debbugs.gnu.org" <34684 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: bug#34684: 26.1; Strange characters when inserting date
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2019 16:43:00 +0000

I can confirm that I did press Enter, I assumed that meant Return already.

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From: Robert Pluim <rpluim <at> gmail.com> 
Sent: Monday, March 11, 2019 4:42 PM
To: Wong, Philip <Philip.Wong <at> warwick.ac.uk>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>; 34684 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#34684: 26.1; Strange characters when inserting date

>>>>> On Mon, 11 Mar 2019 16:13:16 +0000, "Wong, Philip" <Philip.Wong <at> warwick.ac.uk> said:

    Philip> Chinese, Sunday to Saturday:日一二三四五六

    Philip> Attempting M-: (I hope I did this right, I pressed Alt +
    Philip> Shift + :, then copied and pasted your command)

    Philip> No output but it says this on the bottom: 'Trailing
    Philip> garbage following expression'

I guess that means you typed literally ' RET'. Eli meant: type the command up to the closing ')', and then hit the 'Enter' key, which we normally refer to as 'RET'.

Robert

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