** No longer affects: gucharmap (Ubuntu Bionic)

** No longer affects: gucharmap (Ubuntu Disco)

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Title:
  Support Japanese new era "令和 (Reiwa)"

Status in gucharmap package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  [Background]
  Many packages are affected by the requirement to support the new era "Reiwa" 
(令和)

  This is the meta bug to track packages that need fixes; which packages
  have already been SRUd to previous releases, how to prioritize the
  work needed, and general test cases for verifying that things are
  working as expected.

  [Impact]
  Users who run Ubuntu in Japanese.

  [Test cases]

  1) Search for character "SQUARE ERA NAME"
  2) Verify that the results include at least "SQUARE ERA NAME HEISEI" and 
"SQUARE ERA NAME REIWA" (there should also be Syouwa, Taisyou and Meizi), and 
that the glyphs are readable:

   - SQUARE ERA NAME HEISEI: ㍻
   - SQUARE ERA NAME REIWA: 令和 (in a single glyph)

  Display of the Reiwa square glyph is font-specific; it may show simply
  as a empty square or a square with hex characters. If that is the
  case, the unicode data supports the new character, but the selected
  font does not include the new glyph.

  
  [Regression potential]
  This is a potentially large change as it impacts font display, character sets 
as well as date conversions. As such, extreme care should be taken to ensure 
that regressions are avoided, such that dates previous to May 1, 2019 continue 
to display as before, and dates onward are displayed with the new era symbols. 
The included test cases account for verifying the continued behavior or 
previous dates.

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