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

[Carlos O'Donell]

TAMUKI-san,

Is it important to describe the first era year as "å
ƒ" 
versus "1"? Or to allow the user to control this?

This particular issue was raised as a Java issue, where
"Gy" via DateTimeFormatter can print [Era name][Era year],
but does so with [Era year] as a number (arabic numeral).

I don't know how you would implement such an alternative
because it would require enumerating all of the possible
non-arabic-numeral alternatives. It would be an interesting
addition, but I'm not sure it is valuable to do it this way.

Thoughts?

-- 
Cheers,
Carlos.