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

[Eric Abrahamsen]

Robert Pluim <address@hidden> writes:

> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
>
>>> From: "Wong, Philip" <address@hidden>
>>> Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2019 14:16:25 +0000
>>> 
>>> When I insert a date by pressing CTRL+C then period then enter I get 
>>> “<2019-02-28 ¶g¥|>”.
>>> 
>>> I’m not sure what the strange character is (¶g¥|), can someone help?
>>
>> Please show a complete recipe, starting from "emacs -Q", to reproduce
>> the issue.  When I type "Ctrl-C ." in "emacs -Q", Emacs says that
>> sequence is not bound to any command, so I wonder what is needed to
>> "insert a date" in your scenario.
>
> From the output, this is 'org-time-stamp', which produces
> <2019-02-28 Thu> here. Based on this in the report:
>
>     Important settings:
>       value of $LANG: ZHH
>       locale-coding-system: cp1252
>
> Iʼm assuming thereʼs an issue with buffer-file-coding-system or
> similar. If I do
>
> LANG=zh_HK src/emacs -Q
> (require 'org)
> (org-time-stamp) => <2019-02-28 四>

That means "four", aka "Thursday" :)