Re: [Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#391717: gender in /etc/passwd

[Michelle Konzack <linux4michelle@freenet.de>]

Am 2006-10-08 21:07:07, schrieb Robert Millan:
> 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.

In farsi and arabic you will have the same problems...

Thanks, Greetings and nice Day
    Michelle Konzack
    Systemadministrator
    Tamay Dogan Network
    Debian GNU/Linux Consultant


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