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? GNU Emacs 26.1 (build 1, x86_64-w64-mingw32) of 2018-05-30 built on CIRROCUMULUS Repository revision: 07f8f9bc5a51f5aa94eb099f3e15fbe0c20ea1ea Windowing system distributor 'Microsoft Corp.', version 10.0.17763 Recent messages: blank.org has auto save data; consider M-x recover-this-file Mark set [2 times] Auto-saving... Mark set [3 times] mwheel-scroll: Beginning of buffer [2 times] Auto-saving...done Saving file c:/blank.org... Wrote c:/blank.org mwheel-scroll: Beginning of buffer [6 times] Auto-saving...done Configured using: 'configure --without-dbus --host=x86_64-w64-mingw32 --without-compress-install 'CFLAGS=-O2 -static -g3'' Configured features: XPM JPEG TIFF GIF PNG RSVG SOUND NOTIFY ACL GNUTLS LIBXML2 ZLIB TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS THREADS LCMS2 Important settings: value of $LANG: ZHH locale-coding-system: cp1252 Major mode: Org Minor modes in effect: tooltip-mode: t global-eldoc-mode: t electric-indent-mode: t mouse-wheel-mode: t tool-bar-mode: t menu-bar-mode: t file-name-shadow-mode: t global-font-lock-mode: t font-lock-mode: t blink-cursor-mode: t auto-composition-mode: t auto-encryption-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t line-number-mode: t transient-mark-mode: t Load-path shadows: None found. Features: (shadow sort mail-extr emacsbug sendmail cl-extra help-mode cal-iso org-agenda cal-move org-rmail org-mhe org-irc org-info org-gnus nnir gnus-sum gnus-group gnus-undo gnus-start gnus-cloud nnimap nnmail mail-source tls gnutls utf7 netrc nnoo parse-time gnus-spec gnus-int gnus-range message rmc puny seq byte-opt gv bytecomp byte-compile cconv rfc822 mml mml-sec password-cache epa derived epg epg-config mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode mail-parse rfc2231 mailabbrev gmm-utils mailheader gnus-win gnus nnheader gnus-util rmail rmail-loaddefs rfc2047 rfc2045 ietf-drums mail-utils mm-util mail-prsvr wid-edit org-docview doc-view jka-compr image-mode dired dired-loaddefs org-bibtex bibtex org-bbdb org-w3m org-element cl-seq avl-tree generator org advice org-macro org-footnote org-pcomplete pcomplete org-list org-faces org-entities noutline outline easy-mmode org-version ob-emacs-lisp ob ob-tangle org-src ob-ref ob-lob ob-table ob-keys ob-exp ob-comint comint ansi-color ring ob-core ob-eval org-compat org-macs org-loaddefs format-spec find-func cal-menu easymenu calendar cal-loaddefs cl-loaddefs cl-lib elec-pair time-date mule-util china-util tooltip eldoc electric uniquify ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type mwheel dos-w32 ls-lisp disp-table term/w32-win w32-win w32-vars term/common-win tool-bar dnd fontset image regexp-opt fringe tabulated-list replace newcomment text-mode elisp-mode lisp-mode prog-mode register page menu-bar rfn-eshadow isearch timer select scroll-bar mouse jit-lock font-lock syntax facemenu font-core term/tty-colors frame cl-generic cham georgian utf-8-lang misc-lang vietnamese tibetan thai tai-viet lao korean japanese eucjp-ms cp51932 hebrew greek romanian slovak czech european ethiopic indian cyrillic chinese composite charscript charprop case-table epa-hook jka-cmpr-hook help simple abbrev obarray minibuffer cl-preloaded nadvice loaddefs button faces cus-face macroexp files text-properties overlay sha1 md5 base64 format env code-pages mule custom widget hashtable-print-readable backquote w32notify w32 lcms2 multi-tty make-network-process emacs) Memory information: ((conses 16 203971 25161) (symbols 56 31648 1) (miscs 48 150 270) (strings 32 67063 2749) (string-bytes 1 2096605) (vectors 16 27974) (vector-slots 8 656594 10610) (floats 8 212 256) (intervals 56 614 1074) (buffers 992 16))