Re: CLDR Usage of Gregorian Calendar Era Terms: BC and AD -- Can we please have "CE" and "BCE" ?

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At 10:58 -0800 2007-12-19, John Hudson wrote:

>CLDR should reflect the usage, and that includes both BC/AD and BCE/CE.

Quite so.

Actually the usage of BC and AD is problematic, because it is meant
to be AD 2007 but 54 BC. For the other abbreviations, 2007 CE and 54
BCE are both usual.

-- 
Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com

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