I have a problem some time ago. I don't know the cause: I can't insert dates accentuated, for example Saturday (in Spanish it is Sábado). If I do it, I get: <2024-09-28 s \341.> Instead of <2024-09-28 sá .> And if I try to save the buffer, the minibuffer is open with "Select coding system" message. I have no problem writing manually sáb. or sábado in the buffer, I have no coding problems. If I do M-x describe-coding-system in the buffer, I get this: Coding system for saving this buffer: U -- utf-8-unix (alias: mule-utf-8-unix cp65001-unix) Default coding system (for new files): U -- utf-8 (alias: mule-utf-8 cp65001) Coding system for keyboard input: U -- utf-8-unix (alias: mule-utf-8-unix cp65001-unix) Coding system for terminal output: U -- utf-8 (alias: mule-utf-8 cp65001) Coding system for inter-client cut and paste: U -- utf-16le-dos Defaults for subprocess I/O: decoding: U -- utf-8-dos (alias: mule-utf-8-dos cp65001-dos) encoding: U -- utf-8-unix (alias: mule-utf-8-unix cp65001-unix) Priority order for recognizing coding systems when reading files: 1. utf-8 (alias: mule-utf-8 cp65001) 2. iso-latin-1 (alias: iso-8859-1 latin-1) 3. iso-2022-7bit 4. iso-2022-7bit-lock (alias: iso-2022-int-1) 5. iso-2022-8bit-ss2 6. emacs-mule 7. raw-text 8. iso-2022-jp (alias: junet) 9. in-is13194-devanagari (alias: devanagari) 10. chinese-iso-8bit (alias: cn-gb-2312 euc-china euc-cn cn-gb gb2312) 11. utf-8-auto 12. utf-8-with-signature 13. utf-16 14. utf-16be-with-signature (alias: utf-16-be) 15. utf-16le-with-signature (alias: utf-16-le) 16. utf-16be 17. utf-16le 18. japanese-shift-jis (alias: shift_jis sjis) 19. chinese-big5 (alias: big5 cn-big5 cp950) 20. undecided I have not that problem in emacs -Q GNU Emacs 29.3 (build 2, x86_64-w64-mingw32) of 2024-03-24 Org mode version 9.8-pre