Japanese Official New Era Date Package Updates May Be Needed Tomorrow

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Apr 30 18:26, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Apr 30 07:00, Brian Inglis wrote:
> > Subpackages for sqlite3 and mingw may need updated from the latest ICU release.
> > Packages unicode-cldr-emoji-annotation, unicode-ucd, and fonts used in Japanese,
> > may also need updated as below.
> > Not sure if any GUI date or locale packages need updated.
> > 
> > Add new Windows Era if you are on W10 1809, and maybe W7 and earlier, if still
> > unpatched:
> > 
> > HKLM_SYS_CCS_Control_Nls_Calendars_Japanese_Eras.reg
> > 8< ------------------------------ >8
> > Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
> > 
> > [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Nls\Calendars\Japanese\Eras]
> > "2019 05 01"="令和_㋿_Reiwa_R"
> > 8< ------------------------------ >8
> > 
> > New era name gengo 令和/㋿/Reiwa/R announced Mar 31 goes into effect May 1
> > R1.5.1 令和元年; H31.5.1 is an R1 bug; see
> 
> The Cygwin era info is in Cygwin itself to be compatible with glibc, not
> fetched from Windows, .  I have a patch in the loop to update Cygwin
> with the new era data, but a new Cygwin version may have to wait until
> June, sorry.

No, it's ok, I'll release 3.0.7 today.


Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen
Cygwin Maintainer
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