Gender awareness in Hebrew FOSS translations

[Tzafrir Rehan]

2010/7/5 Shlomi Loubaton <shlomister at gmail.com>

> Hi ,
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> I would like to start a discussion regarding this issue and I think this
> list might be the right place to start it since I believe the problem can be
> solved by patching the gettext project.
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I'm not sure this problem should be solved in the local level of the gettext
project, though it is possible that such patching will be required by the
solution.

In my opinion, the problem you described should be solved on a global level,
by which I mean the Standards Institution of Israel, and the Academy of the
Hebrew Language.

Once a standard is set as to how non gender specific English is to be
translated to Hebrew in computer UIs, translators of all projects can follow
it.
I also find it hard to believe such a standard is not already set.

--

  Tzafrir Rehan.


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> While that may sound a bit too complicated I believe it provides the best
> solution and the right way to do it. I also understand that this may take
> weeks or months or even years to refine , improve and get gettext
> maintainers to implement it or roll our own patch and hope it gets accepted.
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