[tz] Big tech warns of 'Japan's millennium bug' ahead of Akihito's abdication

Steve Summit scs+tz at eskimo.com
Fri Jul 27 15:32:43 UTC 2018


> "Big tech warns of 'Japan's millennium bug' ahead of Akihito's abdication"
> https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jul/25/big-tech-warns-japan-millennium-bug-y2k-emperor-akihito-abdication

Fascinating.  From the article:

| Unicode [can't] set the standard for that new character [...] until
| it knows what it's called, and it won't know that until late February
| at best.  Unfortunately, version 12 of Unicode is due to come out
| in early March...

Sounds like the problems encountered by some other people I know,
trying madly to release their updates in time for the results of
last-minute time-related political decisions... :-)


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