How do you recommend to use Hebrew gender-related translations?

[Uri Even-Chen]

Hi Django users,

How do you recommend to use Hebrew gender-related translations?

For example, here are the choices for diet in Speedy Net (notice it's currently only used in Speedy Match, but it's part of the profile of Speedy Net):

```

class User(Entity, PermissionsMixin, AbstractBaseUser):

....

    GENDER_FEMALE = 1

    GENDER_MALE = 2

    GENDER_OTHER = 3

    GENDER_CHOICES = (

        (GENDER_FEMALE, _('Female')),

        (GENDER_MALE, _('Male')),

        (GENDER_OTHER, _('Other')),

    )

    DIET_UNKNOWN   = 0

    DIET_VEGAN      = 1

    DIET_VEGETARIAN = 2

    DIET_CARNIST    = 3

    DIET_CHOICES = (

        (DIET_UNKNOWN, _('Please select...')),

        (DIET_VEGAN, _('Vegan (eats only plants and fungi)')),

        (DIET_VEGETARIAN, _('Vegetarian (doesn\'t eat fish and meat)')),

        (DIET_CARNIST, _('Carnist (eats animals)'))

    )

....

    gender = models.SmallIntegerField(verbose_name=_('I am'), choices=GENDER_CHOICES)

    diet = models.SmallIntegerField(verbose_name=_('diet'), choices=DIET_CHOICES, default=DIET_UNKNOWN)

```

And here are the translations:

```

#: .\accounts\models.py:151

msgid "Vegan (eats only plants and fungi)"

msgstr "טבעוני/ת (אוכל/ת רק צמחים ופטריות)"

#: .\accounts\models.py:152

msgid "Vegetarian (doesn't eat fish and meat)"

msgstr "צמחוני/ת (לא אוכל/ת דגים ובשר)"

#: .\accounts\models.py:153

msgid "Carnist (eats animals)"

msgstr "קרניסט/ית (אוכל/ת חיות)"

```

The correct translations in Hebrew are per gender (female, male or other) but in English they are the same. How do you recommend to program it? I thought about adding " [female]", " [male]" or " [other]" suffixes to the strings and then removing them in the English translations. But then English would also require a translation. Is there a better approach? And how do I write the model when this feature is gender-related?

The same question is related to any site which has a language where the text is gender-related, and a language where it is not.

You can see the code on GitHub: https://github.com/urievenchen/speedy-net

Thanks,

Uri.

Uri Even-Chen

Phone: +972-54-3995700 Email: u...@speedy.net Website: http://www.speedysoftware.com/uri/en/

[Fergus Cameron]

I personally try to use language agnostic message IDs and translate
everything (i.e. including English). Your idea of appending the
gender is along the same lines and seems logical.

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[Avraham Serour]

maybe translation context?

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/i18n/translation/#contextual-markers

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[Uri Even-Chen]

Thanks, I think contextual markers is a solution, where they can be either "female", "male" or "other".

Uri Even-Chen

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