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

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From: "Wong, Philip" <Philip.Wong <at> warwick.ac.uk>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: "rpluim <at> gmail.com" <rpluim <at> gmail.com>, "34684 <at> debbugs.gnu.org" <34684 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: bug#34684: 26.1; Strange characters when inserting date
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2019 09:58:17 +0000

That did the job, thanks!


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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> 
Sent: Monday, March 11, 2019 5:55 PM
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

> From: "Wong, Philip" <Philip.Wong <at> warwick.ac.uk>
> CC: "rpluim <at> gmail.com" <rpluim <at> gmail.com>, "34684 <at> debbugs.gnu.org"
> 	<34684 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>
> 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)

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