Re: Emacs release schedule and Akihito's abdication

[Clément Pit-Claudel]

On 2018-07-27 16:20, Paul Eggert wrote:
> Should we plan for a new release around March 2019, if only a point release? 
> Otherwise, a lot of Japanese text will stop working, due to the expected 
> abdication of Emperor Akihito in April 2019, and the use of a new character 
> in Japanese-format dates.

Thanks for highlighting the issue, Paul.

I hope you can indulge a naive question :)  Can you clarify how Japanese text 
would break?  My quite-possibly-incorrect mental model is that Emacs finds 
appropriate characters in fonts by codepoint, so assuming installed fonts 
support it, shouldn't Emacs should be able to display the new character just 
fine?

Of course, the output of C-u x = would likely be broken or partial, but would 
text display be broken too?

Thanks!
Clément.