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| Matthew East (mdke) wrote Re: [Bug 47504] Gender conventions in documents | #2 |
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Hi Yaniv, thanks for your bug report.
Yaniv Abir wrote:
> In some languages, such as Arabic or Hebrew, there is a distinction
> between male and female. Accordingly, it is custom to right guides in
> the male form ( for historical reasons) and add a notice that sais
> "although this guide is written in the male form, it is directed at both
> sexes.
Questions of localisation don't concern us - the relevant translation
team can adjust the language and style of the document to suit the
particular culture.
However, we do need as a team to decide on the convention for doing this
in _English_. There was a mailing list thread about this some time ago,
and nothing was decided. What does the team feel is the best convention
to adopt for gender?
When this is decided, we can update the styleguide.
Matt
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