Gender and translations

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@codinghorror

Couldn’t this be solved for now if there were two localizations that the user could select on their profile page, which they can already do?

So

English
Spanish
French
Hebrew (male)
Hebrew (female)

Then select the one that matches you?

@sam

Yes, we can definitely do something like that, all we are missing is a bit of workflow and internal convention.

Just remember that some of the language data gets written to other places, such as RSS feeds. So if a filename format changes, it could impact those places and not be easily recognized.

Here is the relevant discussion

Problem in latest.rss / Not a Valid Feed, it says!

@codinghorror, I can now confirm this is happening due to the default locale being changed in Admin > Settings. When I select Persian, it adds the <language>fa_IR</language> to the RSS feed output. Switching it back to English, puts it back to <language>en</language>. Based on List of ISO 639-1 codes - Wikipedia, it seems the appropriate code for Persian is simply fa, I’m not sure why _IR is being appended to it. When I take the RSS output and plug it directly into the validator, changing fa_I…