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[v3] Add verbose comments to 'era' in ja_JP locale.

Message ID c6c4ee78-45ce-2c50-df8b-48ba55b9673d@redhat.com
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Series [v3] Add verbose comments to 'era' in ja_JP locale. | expand

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Carlos O'Donell March 31, 2019, 3:13 a.m. UTC 
On 3/30/19 8:52 AM, TAMUKI Shoichi wrote:
> % The era names are laid out in groups of 2 to account for the desire
> % to avoid using '1' for the first era year.  Instead of '1' we use
> % <U5143> or <GAN> as the first era year.
> %
> % The following dates and their names are recorded below in descending
> % date order (note that <U5E74> or <NEN> follows each date).
> % <HEISEI> -> <SHOWA> -> <TAISHO> -> <MEIJI> -> <AD> -> <BC>
> %
> % Each string is an era description segment with the format:
> % "direction:offset:start_date:end_date:era_name:era_format"
> %
> % Note:
> % - The '+*' entry in end_date means "forever going forward"
> % - The '-*' entry in end_date means "forever going backwards" count up.
> % - Negative year number in start_date is prior to AD 1 (BC) counting up.
> % - The last entry <U7D00><U5143><U524D> in era_name means BC.
> % - The second-to-last entry <U897F><U66A6> in era_name means AD.
> %

I like this. Thank you for your review.

Here is v3 for review.

OK for master?

 From ef207dedc89c3c06c09eecd20465a96f768392b2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2019 14:02:20 -0400
Subject: [PATCH v3] Add verbose comments to 'era' in ja_JP locale.

---
  localedata/locales/ja_JP | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
  1 file changed, 18 insertions(+)
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diff --git a/localedata/locales/ja_JP b/localedata/locales/ja_JP
index 9bfbb2bb9b..cb51e6d69d 100644
--- a/localedata/locales/ja_JP
+++ b/localedata/locales/ja_JP
@@ -14946,6 +14946,24 @@  am_pm	"<U5348><U524D>";"<U5348><U5F8C>"
  
  t_fmt_ampm "%p%I<U6642>%M<U5206>%S<U79D2>"
  
+% The era names are laid out in groups of 2 to account for the desire
+% to avoid using '1' for the first era year.  Instead of '1' we use
+% <U5143> or <GAN> as the first era year.
+%
+% The following dates and their names are recorded below in descending
+% date order (note that <U5E74> or <NEN> follows each date).
+% <HEISEI> -> <SHOWA> -> <TAISHO> -> <MEIJI> -> <AD> -> <BC>
+%
+% Each string is an era description segment with the format:
+% "direction:offset:start_date:end_date:era_name:era_format"
+%
+% Note:
+% - The '+*' entry in end_date means "forever going forward"
+% - The '-*' entry in end_date means "forever going backwards" counting up.
+% - Negative year number in start_date is prior to AD 1 (BC) counting up.
+% - The last entry <U7D00><U5143><U524D> in era_name means BC.
+% - The second-to-last entry <U897F><U66A6> in era_name means AD.
+%
  era	"+:2:1990//01//01:+*:<U5E73><U6210>:%EC%Ey<U5E74>";/
  	"+:1:1989//01//08:1989//12//31:<U5E73><U6210>:%EC<U5143><U5E74>";/
  	"+:2:1927//01//01:1989//01//07:<U662D><U548C>:%EC%Ey<U5E74>";/