<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 16px; "><pre class="newpage" style="font-size: 1em; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; page-break-before: always; ">Dear Philip,</pre><pre class="newpage" style="font-size: 1em; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; page-break-before: always; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Thank you for your comments on my initial proposal of four variant subtags for the Sanskrit language. I have revised the registration form as follows:</pre><pre class="newpage" style="font-size: 1em; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; page-break-before: always; "><br></pre><pre class="newpage" style="font-size: 1em; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; page-break-before: always; ">1.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Made the subtags five characters in length.</pre><pre class="newpage" style="font-size: 1em; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; page-break-before: always; ">2.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Moved the Macrolanguage field value to the Prefix field</pre><pre class="newpage" style="font-size: 1em; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; page-break-before: always; ">3.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Moved the Comments field value to the Description field</pre><pre class="newpage" style="font-size: 1em; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; page-break-before: always; "><br></pre><pre class="newpage" style="font-size: 1em; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; page-break-before: always; ">In India Sanskrit is written in any of the regional scripts of India as well as in Roman script (Latn) elsewhere in the world, so the script tag is not dispensable.</pre><pre class="newpage" style="font-size: 1em; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; page-break-before: always; "><br></pre><pre class="newpage" style="font-size: 1em; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; page-break-before: always; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Does the registration look adequate now?</pre><pre class="newpage" style="font-size: 1em; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; page-break-before: always; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Thanks.</pre><pre class="newpage" style="font-size: 1em; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; page-break-before: always; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Peter</pre><pre class="newpage" style="font-size: 1em; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; page-break-before: always; "><br></pre><pre class="newpage" style="font-size: 1em; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; page-break-before: always; ">I would like to submit the following four language subtag registration forms to register standard tags for recognized dialects of Sanskrit. I assume these would be used in an xml:lang attribute as follows:</pre><pre class="newpage" style="font-size: 1em; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; page-break-before: always; ">xml:lang="sa-Deva-vedic" = Sanskrit in Devanagari script, in the Vedic dialect.</pre><pre class="newpage" style="font-size: 1em; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; page-break-before: always; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; white-space: normal; "><pre class="newpage" style="font-size: 1em; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; page-break-before: always; ">xml:lang="sa-Deva-class" = Sanskrit in Devanagari script, in the Classical dialect.</pre><div><pre class="newpage" style="font-size: 1em; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; page-break-before: always; ">xml:lang="sa-Deva-epics" = Sanskrit in Devanagari script, in the Epic dialect.</pre></div><div><pre class="newpage" style="font-size: 1em; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; page-break-before: always; ">xml:lang="sa-Deva-buddh" = Sanskrit in Devanagari script, in the Buddhist dialect.</pre><pre class="newpage" style="font-size: 1em; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; page-break-before: always; ">Please let me know if the following forms are not correctly filled in. Thank you.</pre><pre class="newpage" style="font-size: 1em; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; page-break-before: always; ">Sincerely,</pre><pre class="newpage" style="font-size: 1em; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; page-break-before: always; ">Peter Scharf</pre></div><div><br></div></span></pre><pre class="newpage" style="font-size: 1em; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; page-break-before: always; ">LANGUAGE SUBTAG REGISTRATION FORM
1. Name of requester: Peter M. Scharf
2. E-mail address of requester: <a href="mailto:scharf@brown.edu">scharf@brown.edu</a>
3. Record Requested:
Type:variant
Subtag:vedic
Description:The most ancient dialect of Sanskrit used in verse and prose composed until about the 4th century B.C.E.
Prefix:sa
Preferred-Value:
Deprecated:
Suppress-Script:
Macrolanguage:
Comments:
4. Intended meaning of the subtag:Vedic Sanskrit
5. Reference to published description
of the language (book or article):Macdonell, Arthur A. A Vedic Grammar for Students. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1916.
6. Any other relevant information:
</pre><div><br></div><div><pre class="newpage" style="font-size: 1em; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; page-break-before: always; ">LANGUAGE SUBTAG REGISTRATION FORM
1. Name of requester: Peter M. Scharf
2. E-mail address of requester: <a href="mailto:scharf@brown.edu">scharf@brown.edu</a>
3. Record Requested:
Type:variant
Subtag:class
Description:Classical Sanskrit
Prefix:sa
Preferred-Value:
Deprecated:
Suppress-Script:
Macrolanguage:
Comments:
4. Intended meaning of the subtag:Classical Sanskrit
5. Reference to published description
of the language (book or article):Whitney, William Dwight. Sanskrit Grammar. Second edition. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1989.
6. Any other relevant information:
</pre></div><div><br></div><div><pre class="newpage" style="font-size: 1em; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; page-break-before: always; ">LANGUAGE SUBTAG REGISTRATION FORM
1. Name of requester: Peter M. Scharf
2. E-mail address of requester: <a href="mailto:scharf@brown.edu">scharf@brown.edu</a>
3. Record Requested:
Type:variant
Subtag:buddh
Description:Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit
Prefix:sa
Preferred-Value:
Deprecated:
Suppress-Script:
Macrolanguage:
Comments:
4. Intended meaning of the subtag:Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit
5. Reference to published description
of the language (book or article):Edgerton, Franklin. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; white-space: normal; font-size: 12px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 3px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 3px; "><strong style="font-weight: bold; ">Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit grammar and dictionary</strong></span>. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; white-space: normal; font-size: 12px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 3px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 3px; ">New Haven, Yale University Press, 1953.</span></pre><pre class="newpage" style="font-size: 1em; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; page-break-before: always; "> 6. Any other relevant information:
</pre></div><div><br></div><div><div><pre class="newpage" style="font-size: 1em; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; page-break-before: always; ">LANGUAGE SUBTAG REGISTRATION FORM
1. Name of requester: Peter M. Scharf
2. E-mail address of requester: <a href="mailto:scharf@brown.edu">scharf@brown.edu</a>
3. Record Requested:
Type:variant
Subtag:epics
Description:Epic Sanskrit
Prefix:sa
Preferred-Value:
Deprecated:
Suppress-Script:
Macrolanguage:sa
Comments:
4. Intended meaning of the subtag:Epic Sanskrit
5. Reference to published description
of the language (book or article):<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Times;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:ManjushreeCSX;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;
mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Oberlies, Thomas. <i>A Grammar of Epic Sanskrit</i>. Indian philology and South Asian studies 5. Berlin; New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2003</span>
6. Any other relevant information:
</pre></div></div><div><br></div></span><div apple-content-edited="true"> <div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div style="font-size: 12px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF">*********************************************************</font></div><div style="font-size: 12px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF">Peter M. Scharf (401) 863-2720 office</font></div><div style="font-size: 12px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF">Department of Classics (401) 863-2123 dept.</font></div><div style="font-size: 12px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF">Brown University</font></div><div style="font-size: 12px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF">PO Box 1856 (401) 863-7484 fax</font></div><div style="font-size: 12px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF">Providence, RI 02912 </font><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF"> </font><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF"> <a href="mailto:Scharf@brown.edu">Scharf@brown.edu</a></font></div><div style="font-size: 12px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF"><a href="http://www.research.brown.edu/research/profile.php?id=10044">http://www.research.brown.edu/research/profile.php?id=10044</a></font></div><div style="font-size: 12px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF"><a href="http://sanskritlibrary.org/">http://sanskritlibrary.org</a>/</font></div><div style="font-size: 12px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF">*********************************************************</font></div></div></div> </div><br></body></html>