Language Variant subtags for Sanskrit

[Phillips, Addison]

I don’t think obfuscation is good at all, which is why I’m against changing the other subtags and think that abbreviated subtags should be avoided when ample room exists for a completely spelled out subtag. However, a native term for “classical Sanskrit” would possibly be useful as a way of avoiding folks tagging stuff like “el-classic” or “de-classic”.

Addison Phillips
Globalization Architect (Lab126)
Chair (W3C I18N, IETF IRI WGs)

Internationalization is not a feature.
It is an architecture.

From: mark.edward.davis at gmail.com [mailto:mark.edward.davis at gmail.com] On Behalf Of Mark Davis ?
Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2010 10:41 AM
To: Phillips, Addison
Cc: Doug Ewell; ietf-languages at iana.org; peter_scharf at brown.edu
Subject: Re: Language Variant subtags for Sanskrit

I fail to understand why people think that obfuscation is a good thing... There will be a prefix for "classical" that completely disambiguates it.

Mark

— Il meglio è l’inimico del bene —

On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 08:28, Phillips, Addison <addison at lab126.com<mailto:addison at lab126.com>> wrote:
Most of the requests seem straightforward. Are we only talking about the subtag for "classical"? Using a native term to obfuscate "classical" would possibly be a good solution for that one subtag. There is no reason why a native term is required for the others.

Addison Phillips
Globalization Architect (Lab126)
Chair (W3C I18N, IETF IRI WGs)

Internationalization is not a feature.
It is an architecture.


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