Re: Japanese Era name change and named vs. numbered era date.

[Carlos O'Donell <carlos at redhat dot com>]

On 1/29/19 8:28 PM, TAMUKI Shoichi wrote:
> In ja_JP localedata in Glibc, as in the Heisei example below, the
> first year of the era is defined separately from the second year
> onwards:
> 
> era	"+:2:1990//01//01:+*:<U5E73><U6210>:%EC%Ey<U5E74>";/
> 	"+:1:1989//01//08:1989//12//31:<U5E73><U6210>:%EC<U5143><U5E74>";/

I'm talking specifically about '%Ey'.

Let me ask my question differently.

Could someone want to output:

"%EC %Ey 年"

The equivalnet of %EY, but with spaces, and *also* want %Ey to be
"元" in the first year?

I see two choices:

(1) %Ey is always an arabic numeral year-of-era.

(2) %Ey is always an arabic numeral year-of-era, except for the first
    year when it is "元".

It sounds like (2) is not that important because %EY already provides
this for you in a compact form.

Java suffers from this problem because they don't have the equivalent
of %EY, they have only 'G' (era name) and 'y' (year-of-era) and their
'y' is always arabic numerals.

https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/time/format/DateTimeFormatter.html

Does that clarify my question?

-- 
Cheers,
Carlos.