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Handling Japanese new era "令和 (Reiwa)"



Hi,

 I've noticed that Japan renews its era from 平成 (Heisei) to 令和 (Reiwa)
 (U+32FF) at 1st May and it's necessary to update some packages to deal
 with it. 

 > To Release Managers
 How do we handle with it for buster? (and stretch?)

 > Folks
 Some packages list to be updated as far as I know
 Please let me know if you've noticed more

  - glibc [1]
  - unicode-data [2]
  - mozc (IME) [3]
  - libreoffice [4]
  - openjdk [5]
  - icu [6]
  - fonts! (Noto, VLgothic, etc...)

[1] https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22964
    (debian)$ LC_ALL=ja_JP.utf8 date +%EY -d 20190501
               平成31年
    (fedora)$ LC_ALL=ja_JP.utf8 date +%EY -d 20190501
               令和元年
[2] Unicode 12.1 contains "令和"
[3] https://salsa.debian.org/debian/mozc/merge_requests/3
[4] https://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?h=libreoffice-6-1&id=39de7d73fdab86a1531f19076ab1d07fcff97b55
[5] https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8205432
[6] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1677093


-- 
Hideki Yamane <henrich@iijmio-mail.jp>


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