[Bug 1823444] Re: [SRU] The Japanese Era name will be changed on May 1, 2019

[Mitsuya Shibata]

@Gunnar and ubuntu-sponsors

I re-generated debdiff with debian's patch for disco, cosmic, bionic.
Could you sponsor for this?

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Title:
  [SRU] The Japanese Era name will be changed on May 1, 2019

Status in Mozc:
  New
Status in mozc package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in mozc source package in Bionic:
  Confirmed
Status in mozc source package in Cosmic:
  Confirmed
Status in mozc source package in Disco:
  Confirmed
Status in mozc source package in Eoan:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  [Impact]

    New Japaenese era 'Reiwa' is expected to start on 1 May 2019.

      https://japan.kantei.go.jp/98_abe/statement/201904/_00001.html

    Mozc has A.D. to Japanese Era converter.

    * "AD 2018"（２０１８ねん） => "Heisei 30th"（平成三十年）

    Please support new era too as like following.

    * "AD 2018"（２０１８ねん） => "Heisei 30th"（平成三十年）
    * "AD 2019"（２０１９ねん） => "Heisei 31th"（平成三十一年）
    * "AD 2019"（２０１９ねん） => "Reiwa 1st"（令和元年）

  [Test Case]

    * Enable Japanese InputMethod and Mozc.

      * Start "System Settings"
      * Open "Regiaon and Language" menu
      * Select "Japanese (Mozc)" from "Input Sources"            
      * Restart GUI session

    * Startup gedit.

    * Input following strings and confirm popping up new era by space
  key.

      * "れいわ" => "令和"
      * "れいわ" => "㋿" (*1)
      * "２０１８ねん" => "平成三十年"
      * "２０１８ねん" => "平成三十年"
      * "２０１９ねん" => "平成三十一年"
      * "２０１９ねん" => "令和元年"
      * "２０２０ねん" => "令和二年"

    * *1: Current fonts-noto-cjk package has no glyph of U+32FF.

  [Regression Potential]

    * There's basically no regression potential.

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