> 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
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
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
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"
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