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From: | Paul Eggert |
Subject: | Re: Emacs release schedule and Akihito's abdication |
Date: | Sat, 28 Jul 2018 13:53:54 -0700 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.9.1 |
Van L wrote:
Are there any memories from 1989 at the last era change in Japan?
That predates Unicode. Although I don't have personal memories of the transition, I suspect that back then instead of ㍻ (U+337B SQUARE ERA NAME HEISEI) people just wrote the two characters 平成 (U+5E73, U+6210) as both of the latter are in JIS X 0208-1983. Most likely a similar substitute will be available next year, though we won't know for sure until late February at the earliest.
In my limited experience the two-character spelling is ubiquitous even today, and the special single character is used mostly in official documents.
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