Hi, I had logged issue https://code.google.com/p/google-web-toolkit/issues/detail?id=8993 but there's no reaction on it. Does anyone want to discuss this with me?
A small intro: the Japanese Calendar has eras loosely based on the name of an Emperor. Most likely, a new Era will begin soon when the current Emperor dies. Then the current year becomes "1" again. Days and months are the same as the Gregorian Calendar. When you write the year, you also add the Era name. Gregorian year "2015" equals "Heisei 27". It's a little fuzzy in literature what the day before "1/1/Heisei 1" is. What's important to note (for software applications too) is that only some dates on official documents are written in this Imperial format. Other dates follow the western Gregorian Calendar format. So in software, it's not OK to just "detect that we're in Japan, and then let's use the Imperial Calendar format everywhere". End users use a mix of calendars. But what does GWT still require to offer this solution? I'd have a stab at it myself, but I don't have Linux which sounds required to actually contribute to GWT. Is it just as easy as running the CLDR generators to import the "ja_JP_JP" Locale? Do we need the whole solution found in Java 6 by creating a new java.util.JapaneseImperialCalendar (1800 lines of code)? *** I know https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/gwt-jp exists, but my Japanese conversational level is rather unexisting and I didn't want to post this there in English. But I assume lots of Japanese users would benefit from it. If anyone can help out, I'd be very thankful :> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
