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Re: Emacs release schedule and Akihito's abdication
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John Wiegley |
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Re: Emacs release schedule and Akihito's abdication |
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Fri, 27 Jul 2018 13:35:51 -0700 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.1 (darwin) |
>>>>> "PE" == Paul Eggert <address@hidden> writes:
PE> Should we plan for a new release around March 2019, if only a point
PE> release? Otherwise, a lot of Japanese text will stop working, due to the
PE> expected abdication of Emperor Akihito in April 2019, and the use of a new
PE> character in Japanese-format dates. This differs from ordinary Unicode
PE> updates, since the new character is likely to be quite common pretty
PE> quickly, at least in Japanese text. The new character will not be
PE> announced until late February 2019, unfortunately.
I think a patch to the release branch would be reasonable for that purpose; I
wonder how long it will take for that release to make it into all channels.
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