[O] bug#34684: 26.1; Strange characters when inserting date

[Wong, Philip]

That did the job, thanks!


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From: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> 
Sent: Monday, March 11, 2019 5:55 PM
To: Wong, Philip <address@hidden>
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Subject: Re: bug#34684: 26.1; Strange characters when inserting date

> From: "Wong, Philip" <address@hidden>
> CC: "address@hidden" <address@hidden>, "address@hidden"
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> 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)