On Sun, Oct 08, 2006 at 09:07:07PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > On Sun, Oct 08, 2006 at 02:11:33PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > On Sunday 08 October 2006 13:44, Christian Perrier wrote: > > > > passwd maintainers, what do you think about this? The idea would be to > > > > add a gender field in the GECOS, please see the bug log for details and > > > > rationale. > > > > > > > > http://bugs.debian.org/391717 > > > > > > I personnally dislike the idea (why gender and why not religion or the > > > like.....I think that the rationale of l10n is a bit haircutting, > > > here). > > Well, there are some constructions (even in English, although much less common) > that can only be made with assumption on the user's gender. For example in > Catalan (and probably most latin languages) you can't ask "Are you sure you want > to xxxxx?" (a pretty common question in computing) without assuming the user is > male or female. Usualy the former is assumed, but I find this a bit > disrespectful, specialy since making debian more friendly to the female public > [1] is a common concern in our community nowadays. > > [1] Which reminds me debian-women might want to be CCed.. > > > > But, anyway, this is something that should be discussed with > > > our upstream and he should discuss it with other distros. > > Is kloczek@pld.org.pl the right upstream contact address? I sent the same > request to him roughly a month ago, but received no response (not sure if due to > lack of interest, time, or just mail breakage). > > -- > Robert Millan Hi Robert, would the assumtion be that all languages do not offer a neutral way to ask questions? I hope that is not the case. This would seem to be a linguistic question for the translators and i18n/i10n team and to whether they can 'correct' any strings to make them neutral and to issue bugs on any package that has non-neutral language. cheers, Kev -- | .''`. == Debian GNU/Linux == | my web site: | | : :' : The Universal | debian.home.pipeline.com | | `. `' Operating System | go to counter.li.org and | | `- http://www.debian.org/ | be counted! #238656 | | my keysever: pgp.mit.edu | my NPO: cfsg.org |
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