Hi folks, Have you tried to use `set-local-environment'? I usually use the command to change the date formatting in my init.el as follows: (set-locale-environment "en_US.UTF-8") ;; "ja_JP.UTF-8" Best regards, Takaaki Ishikawa 2019年3月12日(火) 3:34 Wong, Philip : > Does the same thing > > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Robert Pluim > Sent: Monday, March 11, 2019 10:43 AM > To: Wong, Philip > Cc: Eli Zaretskii ; 34684@debbugs.gnu.org > Subject: Re: bug#34684: 26.1; Strange characters when inserting date > > > > >>>>> On Mon, 11 Mar 2019 09:41:41 +0000, "Wong, Philip" < > Philip.Wong@warwick.ac.uk> said: > > > > Philip> Sorry, I don't understand what you mean by emacs -Q. How > > Philip> exactly am I supposed to run this command? > > > > Philip> I tried ctrl c and then started typing 'emacs -Q' but it > > Philip> did nothing. > > > > I guess youʼre starting emacs by clicking on some icon? You need to start > it from the command line, with an argument of -Q, probably from cmd.exe or > similar (I am Emacs-on-windows ignorant). > > > > Robert >