CLDR-8081 Add names for traditional Myanmar calendar #3806
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This PR helps fulfill the ICU / ICU4C calendar request ( unicode-org/icu#630 ). It's necessary to add a name for the calendar to BCP47, and names for the months to CLDR.
On a project in Myanmar in 2015, I observed that people may offer the lunar calendar date for their birthday. Our team used reference books to go between the Gregorian calendar and the traditional system.
Online references: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burmese_calendar#Month ; https://saraniya.com/myanmar/myanmar-calendar/ ; https://archive.org/details/burmesearakanese00irwiiala/page/8/mode/2up
Interactive: https://yan9a.github.io/mmcal/
Understanding the name: the ICU ticket refers to the Myanmar calendar, and dates should match the calendar maintained by the Myanmar Calendar Advisory Board.
Understanding eras: following mmcal's example to use eras to represent pre-colonial, colonial, and post-independence calendar systems (years are continuous and have the same abbreviation, ME).
Understanding 15 months:
I'm unable to complete the tests on my machine:
[ERROR] Failed to execute goal on project cldr-code: Could not resolve dependencies for project org.unicode.cldr:cldr-code:jar:46.0-SNAPSHOT: Failed to collect dependencies at com.ibm.icu:icu4j:jar:76.0.1-SNAPSHOT: Failed to read artifact descriptor for com.ibm.icu:icu4j:jar:76.0.1-SNAPSHOT: Could not transfer artifact com.ibm.icu:icu4j:pom:76.0.1-SNAPSHOT from/to githubicu (https://maven.pkg.github.com/unicode-org/icu): authentication failed for https://maven.pkg.github.com/unicode-org/icu/com/ibm/icu/icu4j/76.0.1-SNAPSHOT/icu4j-76.0.1-SNAPSHOT.pom, status: 401 Unauthorized -> [Help 1]