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

[Simon Quigley]

Sponsored to Eoan, Disco, Cosmic, and Bionic.

Will these need to be done for Xenial and Trusty as well? If so, should
we alert the ESM team to do it for Precise as well?

Thanks.

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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:
  In Progress
Status in mozc source package in Bionic:
  In Progress
Status in mozc source package in Cosmic:
  In Progress
Status in mozc source package in Disco:
  In Progress
Status in mozc source package in Eoan:
  In Progress

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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