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How do placeholders work in languages where you are forced to assign lengths to variables?

• maxnoe 7y ago
  Not a Problem in this case, the era is always a single character, a newly formed ligature of two kanjis. The code point was already reserved in unicode 11.0, so you could even just the unicode code point.
  • kevin_thibedeau 7y ago
    The real world is not so perfect. I never see Heisei or Showa, or earlier reigns as a single character. The Japanese are also not fully onboard with Unicode so there's an extra level of effort needed if you want to get into a normalized form.
    • massivecali 7y ago
      >The real world is not so perfect. Perfect summation. Curious how this will also impact other consumers of Japanese data.
    • thaumasiotes 7y ago
      For this specific question, I strongly suspect that whatever the length of your Heisei string is, it's safe to assume that the new era string will be the same length.
  • dialogbox 7y ago
    Then it looks even harder. How do we handle it if our system doesn't support Unicode 11.0? Is platform upgrade only option?