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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: "Wong, Philip" <Philip.Wong@warwick.ac.uk>
Cc: rpluim@gmail.com, 34684@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#34684: 26.1; Strange characters when inserting date
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2019 19:55:25 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83sgvt47oy.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <DB7PR01MB417102D43DA497F2BA6B9B9DAF480@DB7PR01MB4171.eurprd01.prod.exchangelabs.com> (Philip.Wong@warwick.ac.uk)

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

  reply	other threads:[~2019-03-11 17:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <DB7PR01MB41710340234EF2B900832154AF750@DB7PR01MB4171.eurprd01.prod.exchangelabs.com>
2019-02-28 17:55 ` bug#34684: 26.1; Strange characters when inserting date Eli Zaretskii
2019-02-28 19:11   ` Robert Pluim
2019-02-28 19:15     ` Eric Abrahamsen
2019-02-28 19:56     ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-03-01 10:00       ` Robert Pluim
2019-03-01 10:35         ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-03-01 13:47           ` Robert Pluim
2019-03-01 13:49             ` Robert Pluim
2019-03-01 14:09             ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-03-01 14:25               ` Robert Pluim
2019-03-01 14:42                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-03-11  9:41                   ` Wong, Philip
2019-03-11 10:43                     ` Robert Pluim
2019-03-11 10:47                       ` Wong, Philip
2019-03-11 14:58                         ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]                           ` <DB7PR01MB4171B6AF4751C4D196E19DECAF480@DB7PR01MB4171.eurprd01.prod.exchangelabs.com>
2019-03-11 16:41                             ` Robert Pluim
2019-03-11 16:43                               ` Wong, Philip
2019-03-11 16:54                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-03-11 16:55                                   ` Wong, Philip
2019-03-11 17:29                                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-03-11 17:35                                       ` Wong, Philip
2019-03-11 17:55                                         ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2019-03-12  9:58                                           ` Wong, Philip
2019-03-12 16:01                                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-03-12 16:04                                               ` Wong, Philip
2020-05-22 12:10                                               ` Bastien
2020-05-22 12:18                                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-03-12  3:42                         ` bug#34684: " Takaaki Ishikawa
2019-03-12 15:53                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-03-11 14:45                     ` Eli Zaretskii

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