[12] RFR: 8213046: Define Japanese new Era character

[Naoto Sato]

Hi Lance,

On 11/1/18 11:26 AM, Lance Andersen wrote:
> Hi Naoto
> 
> + * The code point, U+32FF, is reserved by the Unicode Consortium
> + * to represent the Japanese square character for the new era that begins
> + **from*  May, 2019. Relevant methods in the Character class return the same
> + * properties as for the existing Japanese era characters (e.g., U+337E for
> + * "Meizi"). For the details of the code point, refer to
> + * <a href="http://blog.unicode.org/2018/09/new-japanese-era.html">
> + *http://blog.unicode.org/2018/09/new-japanese-era.html</a> 
> <http://blog.unicode.org/2018/09/new-japanese-era.html%3C/a%3E>
> 
> 
> 
> Is “from” needed in the the above or could it be
> 
> … era that begins May, 2019 ?

OK, will remove that "from".

> 
> 
> Also is there a change that the URL for the blog could disappear or are 
> they typically a constant and do not change

That blog is an official one from Unicode Consortium. The subtitle of it 
reads "NEWS, ANNOUNCEMENTS, RELEASE INFO, AND CALENDAR UPDATES FROM THE 
UNICODE CONSORTIUM", so I don't expect the entry to disappear without 
any apparent reason.

Naoto

> 
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>> On Nov 1, 2018, at 2:11 PM, Naoto Sato <naoto.sato at oracle.com 
>> <mailto:naoto.sato at oracle.com>> wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Please review a javadoc fix to this issue:
>>
>> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8213046
>>
>> The proposed change is located at:
>>
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~naoto/8213046/webrev.00/
>>
>> This is to clarify the previously pushed change (8211398) in the 
>> javadoc of Character class.
>>
>> Naoto
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