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

[Brian Inglis]

On 2018-08-04 21:35, Paul Eggert wrote:
> Phake Nick wrote:
>> For tzdb, iirc the era name info is also stored in some notes comment. That
>> could be updated too.
> 
> I don't see that in the tzdb source: although there are Japanese characters,
> there is no table of era names. Thanks for the other info, though.

New era name gengo 令和/㋿/Reiwa/R announced Mar 31 goes into effect May 1
R1.5.1 令和元年; H31.5.1 is an R1J bug; see

	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reiwa
	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_era_name

with support in CLDR 35.1, ICU 64.2, Unicode 12.1:

	http://cldr.unicode.org/index/downloads/cldr-35#TOC-V35.1
	http://site.icu-project.org/download/64
	https://www.unicode.org/Public/12.1.0/ucd/

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