bug#34684: 26.1; Strange characters when inserting date

["Wong, Philip" <Philip.Wong@warwick.ac.uk>]

Thanks Eli, you're right.

I still get '<2019-03-11 ¶g¤@>'

-----Original Message-----
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> 
Sent: Monday, March 11, 2019 4:54 PM
To: Wong, Philip <Philip.Wong@warwick.ac.uk>
Cc: rpluim@gmail.com; 34684@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#34684: 26.1; Strange characters when inserting date

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> I can confirm that I did press Enter, I assumed that meant Return already.
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> Subject: Re: bug#34684: 26.1; Strange characters when inserting date
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> >>>>> On Mon, 11 Mar 2019 16:13:16 +0000, "Wong, Philip" <Philip.Wong@warwick.ac.uk> said:
> 
>     Philip> Chinese, Sunday to Saturday:日一二三四五六
> 
>     Philip> Attempting M-: (I hope I did this right, I pressed Alt +
>     Philip> Shift + :, then copied and pasted your command)
> 
>     Philip> No output but it says this on the bottom: 'Trailing
>     Philip> garbage following expression'
> 
> I guess that means you typed literally ' RET'. Eli meant: type the command up to the closing ')', and then hit the 'Enter' key, which we normally refer to as 'RET'.

Then please make sure you type 3 closing parentheses at the end, not 4.  If I type 4, I get the same response as you describe.