# Gender and translations

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/gender-and-translations/73728>\
**Category:** Translations\
**Created:** [8 Noviembre, 2017 22:57 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/gender-and-translations/73728 "2017-11-08T22:57:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![icaria36](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/icaria36/32/426431_2.png) [@icaria36](https://meta.discourse.org/u/icaria36)\
**Post date:** [8 Noviembre, 2017 22:57 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/gender-and-translations/73728/1 "2017-11-08T22:57:26Z")

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English is a pretty equal gender when it comes to gender. The software can say “You’re now fully licensed!” and nobody feels excluded.

Translate that string (and many others) into the majority of languages out there, and you are likely to encounter a gender problem, basically treating women as men. i18n practices have solved this problem a long time ago, by introducing gender variables in strings and by allowing users to define how they want be addressed gender-wise in their user preferences.

Unless I am missing something, this gender-friendly i18n hasn’t been implemented in Discourse. Has this problem been discussed? Are there any plans to solve it?

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