Language Variant subtags for Sanskrit

[John Cowan]

On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 4:46 PM, Kent Karlsson
<kent.karlsson14 at telia.com> wrote:
> This will turn into a problem if Vedic Sanskrit gets its own
> code in the ISO/IEC 639-3 registry. And as others have mentioned,
> that seems a likely prospect.

We've dealt with that before: we just deprecate the subtag in favor of
the new tag.

>
>    /Kent K
>
>
> Den 2010-07-29 21.54, skrev "Michael Everson" <everson at evertype.com>:
>
>> I approve the subtags and vaidika as amended below.
>>
>> On 21 Jul 2010, at 22:54, Doug Ewell wrote:
>>
>>> Michael has indicated that he would approve the variant subtags recently
>>> renamed 'vaidika', 'laukika', 'bauddha', and 'itihasa', although as a
>>> matter of BCP 47 protocol this can only happen at the end of the latest
>>> two-week extension, that is, on or after July 28.
>>>
>>> As I wrote on July 6, the Description field proposed by Peter Scharf for
>>> what we have been calling Vedic Sanskrit:
>>>
>>> Description: The most ancient dialect of Sanskrit used in verse and
>>>   prose composed until about the 4th century B.C.E.
>>>
>>> is inappropriately long and encyclopedic for a Description, and I
>>> propose moving it to a Comments field and changing the Description to
>>> match the "intended meaning" in his registration form, thus:
>>>
>>> Type: variant
>>> Subtag: vaidika
>>> Description: Vedic Sanskrit
>>> Prefix: sa
>>> Comments: The most ancient dialect of Sanskrit used in verse and prose
>>>   composed until about the 4th century B.C.E.
>>>
>>
>> Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/
>>
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