Re: Feedback on the proposal to change U+FFFD generation when decoding ill-formed UTF-8

On 1 Jun 2017, at 19:44, Asmus Freytag via Unicode wrote: > > What's not OK is to take an existing recommendation and change it to > something else, just to make bug reports go away for one implementations. > That's like two sleepers fighting over a blanket that's too

Encoding of character for new Japanese era name after Heisei

Nowadays Unicode have encoded four characters, from U+337E to U+337B, as character for the four most recent Japanese era name, which people are using them quite a lot. In recent months, The intention for Japanese emperor to resign from the duty have been announced and Japan is expected to get a

Re: Encoding of character for new Japanese era name after Heisei

But will there really be a new era name with the new emperor? All that could be made is a preservation by principle, but this does not mean that it will be really encoded. The lack of a "representative glyph" is a blocker. May be we could add instead a generic character for "New Japanese Era"

Re: Encoding of character for new Japanese era name after Heisei

The Japanese Era names are not tied to the personal "names of possible successors". While it is possible to spell out the name of an era using regular characters that have been encoded, but for time expressions it's been customary to have a single code

Re: Encoding of character for new Japanese era name after Heisei

Anyway, since emperor Akihito (明仁), the era starting in 1989 is no longer named after the emperor, but is Heisei (平成) "Peace everywhere". This already occured in the past on the Ningo system. There's no absolute requirement to change the era name even if there's a new Emperor named. Anyway it is

Re: Encoding of character for new Japanese era name after Heisei

> Anyway, since emperor Akihito (明仁), the era starting in 1989 is no > longer named after the emperor, but is Heisei (平成) "Peace everywhere". > This already occured in the past on the Ningo system. There's no > absolute requirement to change the era name even if there's a new > Emperor named. The