From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
To: Van L <van@scratch.space>, Emacs-Devel devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Emacs release schedule and Akihito's abdication
Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2018 13:53:54 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a73d7d1c-cf1e-983b-f861-27761925ba26@cs.ucla.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <DA8F87A5-F5D7-42C6-9545-7C9B3F173840@scratch.space>
Van L wrote:
> Are there any memories from 1989 at the last era change in Japan?
That predates Unicode. Although I don't have personal memories of the
transition, I suspect that back then instead of ㍻ (U+337B SQUARE ERA NAME
HEISEI) people just wrote the two characters 平成 (U+5E73, U+6210) as both of the
latter are in JIS X 0208-1983. Most likely a similar substitute will be
available next year, though we won't know for sure until late February at the
earliest.
In my limited experience the two-character spelling is ubiquitous even today,
and the special single character is used mostly in official documents.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-07-28 20:53 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
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 [this message]
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