Update for Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2: April 25, 2019

This update includes the quality improvements from KB4493467, in addition to new Japanese Era related changes. Key changes include:

• Updates the NLS registry to support the new Japanese Era.
• Addresses an issue that causes the Date and Time Settings control to cache old Eras and prevents the control from refreshing when the time enters the new Japanese Era. 
• Addresses an issue that causes the DateTimePicker to display the date incorrectly in the Japanese date format.
• Addresses an issue that prevents an input method editor (IME) from supporting the new Japanese Era character.
• Addresses an issue that prevents the CALDATETIME structure from handling more than four Japanese Eras.
• Addresses an issue that causes the abbreviated Japanese Era names to be incorrect.
• Addresses an issue that causes the Clock and Calendar flyout control to ignore user settings for Japanese Era date and time formats.
• Enables the 元年 character for the first year in the Japanese Era.
• Addresses an issue that prevents Microsoft Office Visual Basic for Applications from displaying the correct Japanese Era name. 
• Addresses an issue that may overwrite gan-nen support behavior for the Japanese Era after an update.
• Addresses an issue that fails to recognize the first character as the abbreviation for the Japanese Era name.
• Addresses an issue that prevents cross-era navigation in the Japanese Calendar view. 
• Addresses an issue related to the date format for the Japanese Era calendar.
• Addresses an issue that causes the GetCalendarInfo function to return a wrong value for the Japanese Era.
• Updates fonts to support the new Japanese Era.
• Addresses an issue that causes the Clock and Calendar flyout control to display the day of the week incorrectly mapped to a date in the month of the new Japanese Era.
• Addresses an issue that prevents date parsers from converting future and past dates (Gregorian and Japanese) in compound documents (formerly OLE) to a relevant Japanese Era date.

For more information on changes for the Japanese Era, see KB4469068.

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