The Pathedral and the Kazoo

... and find ourselves in the year 2034.

If you now build ICU and get hit by

make[2]: Leaving directory `/builddir/build/BUILD/icu/source/test/cintltst'
-------------
| **     FAILING TEST SUMMARY FOR:              intltest  
         TestTwoDigitYear
      DateFormatTest
   format
| ** END FAILING TEST SUMMARY FOR:              intltest
---------------
ALL TESTS SUMMARY:
ok:  testdata iotest cintltst
===== ERRS:  intltest
make[1]: *** [check-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/builddir/build/BUILD/icu/source/test'

you just did a jump to the left.

http://sourceforge.net/p/icu/mailman/message/32443311/

Then do a step to the right

--- icu.orig/source/test/intltest/dtfmttst.cpp	2013-10-04 22:48:00.000000000 +0200
+++ icu/source/test/intltest/dtfmttst.cpp	2014-06-13 19:34:40.611299572 +0200
@@ -1129,7 +1129,7 @@
         return;
     }
     parse2DigitYear(fmt, "5/6/17", date(117, UCAL_JUNE, 5));
-    parse2DigitYear(fmt, "4/6/34", date(34, UCAL_JUNE, 4));
+    parse2DigitYear(fmt, "4/6/34", date(134, UCAL_JUNE, 4));
 }
 
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With your hands on your hips
You bring your knees in tight
But it's the pelvic thrust that really drives you insane
Let's do the time warp again
Let's do the time warp again

Time Warp - Rocky Horror Picture Show

In LibreOffice 4.3 the user will be able to specify an arbitrary valid BCP 47 language tag for text attribution.

In character attribution dialogs the language list box (of the Western text font if CJK or CTL are enabled) is now a combo box with an edit field where the user can specify a valid BCP 47 language tag to define a text language attribute if the language she wants to assign is not available from the selectable list. The input is checked against a copy of the IANA language-subtag-registry (transformed to XML), provided either with the liblangtag package of your OS distribution, or the liblangtag shipped with LibreOffice on systems that do not provide one. The internal registry file distributed with LibreOffice 4.3 consists of data as of 2014-04-10.

 

For language tag details please see the For users section on the langtag.net web site.

And now jump to the release notes for more nifty features of LibreOffice 4.3 :-)