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
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Tamay Dogan Network
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