# Gender and translations **URL:** \ **Category:** Translations\ **Created:** [2017年十一月8日 22:57 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/gender-and-translations/73728 "2017-11-08T22:57:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 18
**Author:** ![cpradio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/cpradio/32/4970_2.png) [@cpradio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cpradio)\ **Post date:** [2017年十一月10日 11:21 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/gender-and-translations/73728/18 "2017-11-10T11:21:16Z")
> [@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!](https://meta.discourse.org/t/problem-in-latest-rss-not-a-valid-feed-it-says/55466/24): > > @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 \fa\_IR\ to the RSS feed output. Switching it back to English, puts it back to \en\. Based on [List of ISO 639 language codes - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_639-1_codes), 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, changi… --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/gender-and-translations/73728)._