On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 08:50:51PM -0800, James Busser wrote: > Good. I understand you were preferring to preserve real estate as much as > possible. Yes.
> I have one more idea. It can be very useful in phone communications or in > other verifications to easily have available the current patient's date of > birth. ... > This would permit us to combine the newly reclaimed 70 pixels of width with > the "Age" space, to provide a combination of Age + Gender + DOB, pushing > Caveat slightly to the right if needed, to yield: > > YYYY-MM-DD Gender YYageMMage > > e.g. 1958-05-14 M 59y8m > > or > > YYageMMage Gender YYYY-MM-DD > > I would abbreviate Gender in this display to the first character (in many > cases, regardless of language, this will be M or F, or rarely T). In the world of unicode there are universally understood symbols... A male-female combination stands for hermaphrodite. And with a bit of creativity there's useful symbols for tf/tm, too :-) (I use <male+female> + either of male or female for tm or tf. Karsten -- GPG key ID E4071346 @ wwwkeys.pgp.net E167 67FD A291 2BEA 73BD 4537 78B9 A9F9 E407 1346
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