Re: how to change language of format-date-string

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Rasmus <rasmus@gmx.us>
> Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2015 12:37:39 +0100
> 
> Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > If you only want to change the language for format-time-string, use the
> > system-time-locale variable:
> >
> > (setq system-time-locale "da_DK.UTF-8")
> 
> Thanks that works.

If you set system-time-locale alone, without also setting
locale-coding-system to the same encoding as specified by
system-time-locale, you will get garbled strings (unless you _know_
that the encoding of both locales is the same, which in practice can
only be true if they use UTF-8).