From: "John Wiegley" <johnw@gnu.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: Emacs Development <Emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Emacs release schedule and Akihito's abdication
Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2018 13:35:51 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2a7qcmn6g.fsf@newartisans.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <db6aa970-9d92-bb59-6553-52be9d985248@cs.ucla.edu> (Paul Eggert's message of "Fri, 27 Jul 2018 13:20:38 -0700")
>>>>> "PE" == Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> writes:
PE> Should we plan for a new release around March 2019, if only a point
PE> release? Otherwise, a lot of Japanese text will stop working, due to the
PE> expected abdication of Emperor Akihito in April 2019, and the use of a new
PE> character in Japanese-format dates. This differs from ordinary Unicode
PE> updates, since the new character is likely to be quite common pretty
PE> quickly, at least in Japanese text. The new character will not be
PE> announced until late February 2019, unfortunately.
I think a patch to the release branch would be reasonable for that purpose; I
wonder how long it will take for that release to make it into all channels.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-07-27 20:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-07-27 20:20 Emacs release schedule and Akihito's abdication Paul Eggert
2018-07-27 20:35 ` John Wiegley [this message]
2018-07-27 21:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-07-27 23:36 ` Paul Eggert
2018-07-27 21:38 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2018-07-27 23:41 ` Paul Eggert
2018-07-28 5:00 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2018-07-28 7:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-07-28 11:08 ` Van L
2018-07-28 20:53 ` Paul Eggert
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