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[PATCH v3] Add verbose comments to 'era' in ja_JP locale.
- From: Carlos O'Donell <codonell at redhat dot com>
- To: TAMUKI Shoichi <tamuki at linet dot gr dot jp>, Rafal Luzynski <digitalfreak at lingonborough dot com>
- Cc: DJ Delorie <dj at redhat dot com>, libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2019 23:13:20 -0400
- Subject: [PATCH v3] Add verbose comments to 'era' in ja_JP locale.
- References: <6e1ded1e-41e5-cca7-2646-9dcebcfeba61@redhat.com> <201903301252.AA04310@tamuki.linet.gr.jp>
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(+)
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>";/
--
2.20.1
--
Cheers,
Carlos.