GNU bug report logs - #34684
26.1; Strange characters when inserting date

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Message #66 received at 34684 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: "Wong\, Philip" <Philip.Wong <at> warwick.ac.uk>
Cc: rpluim <at> gmail.com, 34684 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#34684: 26.1; Strange characters when inserting date
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2019 18:54:00 +0200

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> From: "Wong, Philip" <Philip.Wong <at> warwick.ac.uk>
> CC: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, "34684 <at> debbugs.gnu.org"
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> Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2019 16:43:00 +0000
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> I can confirm that I did press Enter, I assumed that meant Return already.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> 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'.

Then please make sure you type 3 closing parentheses at the end, not
4.  If I type 4, I get the same response as you describe.

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