<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Dear all,</div><div>Standards use two letter tags for languages, e.g. "sa" for Sanskrit, and four letter tags for Scripts, e.g. "Latn", "Deva". So five for variants seems plenty long already to me. Remember that these tags will be used in numerous the xml:lang attributes of TEI elements and length gets cumbersome. I don't see any reason for spelling "buddhist" and "classical" out. "buddh" and "class" are plenty obvious.</div><div><br></div><div>Yours,</div><div>Peter</div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><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></span> </div><br><div><div>On 13 Jul. 2010, at 1:52 PM, Phillips, Addison wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Most of the requests seem straightforward. Are we only talking<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">about the subtag for "classical"? Using a native term to obfuscate<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">"classical" would possibly be a good solution for that one subtag.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">There is no reason why a native term is required for the others.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">I have asked Peter to supply the Sanskrit terms for all four. I'm<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">not minded to make a decision until that is provided.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><br>You will need to make a decision shortly because BCP 47 requires a response at the end of the two week review period. You might extend the review period by two weeks, lacking consensus to register the subtags "as is". But there is no requirement that Peter provide what you have asked for and I, for one, don't agree that it would make sense to use native terms for the other subtags. I'm only a slightly leery of a generic-sounding subtag for Classical Sanskrit, but not of the registration in general. I rather think that native terms transliterated into Latin script are going to be more obscure than is needed.<br><br>Addison<br></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>