From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
To: Emacs Development <Emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Emacs release schedule and Akihito's abdication
Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2018 13:20:38 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <db6aa970-9d92-bb59-6553-52be9d985248@cs.ucla.edu> (raw)
Should we plan for a new release around March 2019, if only a point release?
Otherwise, a lot of Japanese text will stop working, due to the expected
abdication of Emperor Akihito in April 2019, and the use of a new character in
Japanese-format dates. This differs from ordinary Unicode updates, since the new
character is likely to be quite common pretty quickly, at least in Japanese
text. The new character will not be announced until late February 2019,
unfortunately. See:
Whistler K. Unicode 12.1 Planning Considerations. 2018-07-16.
https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2018/18220-u121planning.txt
Hern A. Big tech warns of 'Japan's millennium bug' ahead of Akihito's
abdication. The Guardian. 2018-07-25.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jul/25/big-tech-warns-japan-millennium-bug-y2k-emperor-akihito-abdication
next reply other threads:[~2018-07-27 20:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-07-27 20:20 Paul Eggert [this message]
2018-07-27 20:35 ` Emacs release schedule and Akihito's abdication 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
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