Yoko Oguma pointed out that glibc hard-codes information about the Japanese Era name: era "+:2:1990/01/01:+*:平成:%EC%Ey年";/ "+:1:1989/01/08:1989/12/31:平成:%EC元年";/ "+:2:1927/01/01:1989/01/07:昭和:%EC%Ey年";/ "+:1:1926/12/25:1926/12/31:昭和:%EC元年";/ "+:2:1913/01/01:1926/12/24:大正:%EC%Ey年";/ "+:2:1912/07/30:1912/12/31:大正:%EC元年";/ "+:6:1873/01/01:1912/07/29:明治:%EC%Ey年";/ "+:1:0001/01/01:1872/12/31:西暦:%EC%Ey年";/ "+:1:-0001/12/31:-*:紀元前:%EC%Ey年" This will change due to the abdication. Additional information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_imperial_transition,_2019 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_era_name
*** Bug 24405 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
<https://www.kantei.go.jp/jp/tyoukanpress/201904/1_a.html> suggests that two new characters will be U+4EE4 U+548C: 新しい元号は「令和」であります。
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c.f.: - CLDR data in https://unicode.org/cldr/trac/ticket/11796 - OpenJDK: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8205432
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