[Bug localedata/22964] New: The Japanese Era name will be changed on May 1, 2019

["fweimer at redhat dot com" <sourceware-bugzilla at sourceware dot org>]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22964

            Bug ID: 22964
           Summary: The Japanese Era name will be changed on May 1, 2019
           Product: glibc
           Version: 2.26
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: localedata
          Assignee: unassigned at sourceware dot org
          Reporter: fweimer at redhat dot com
                CC: libc-locales at sourceware dot org
  Target Milestone: ---

Yoko Oguma pointed out that glibc hard-codes information about the Japanese Era
name:

    era     "+:2:1990/01/01:+*:平成:%EC%Ey年";/
            "+:1:1989/01/08:1989/12/31:平成:%EC元年";/
            "+:2:1927/01/01:1989/01/07:昭和:%EC%Ey年";/
            "+:1:1926/12/25:1926/12/31:昭和:%EC元年";/
            "+:2:1913/01/01:1926/12/24:大正:%EC%Ey年";/
            "+:2:1912/07/30:1912/12/31:大正:%EC元年";/
            "+:6:1873/01/01:1912/07/29:明治:%EC%Ey年";/
            "+:1:0001/01/01:1872/12/31:西暦:%EC%Ey年";/
            "+:1:-0001/12/31:-*:紀元前:%EC%Ey年"

This will change due to the abdication.

Additional information:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_imperial_transition,_2019
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_era_name

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