[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #42725: Introduce gender compatible translation function, and gender user profile field
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#42725: Introduce gender compatible translation function, and gender user profile
field
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Reporter: yoavf | Owner:
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: Awaiting Review
Component: I18N | Version: trunk
Severity: normal | Keywords: has-patch
Focuses: |
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For years, the WordPress translators community has needed to resort to
painful compromises for languages with grammatical gender, where women are
often discriminated by default.
From strings like `Lead Developer` to simply `Author` or `Editor`, some
languages will always refer to these as males, regardless of the user
self-identification.
While modern English grammar is exceptionally capable of being gender
neutral, many other languages do not share this trait. Forcing all
languages to adopt a gender-neutral grammar, even when they're not capable
of it, diminishes the appeal of WordPress to non-English speaking users,
especially women - because in almost all languages, pseudo gender-neutral
grammar just uses the male form.
This ticket contains two patches.
1. `gender-to-user-profile.diff` adds a user profile field for users to
select their preferred grammatical gender (or pronoun). The default is
`neutral`. This field was inspired by Facebook's and Wikipedia's field. It
also introduces a `get_current_user_gender()` helper method to retrieve
this field value.
2. `add-new-gender-translation-function.diff`: which adds a `_g()`
function (also previously proposed in #36617 by @bastho), and support for
it in `makepot.php` via an arguably simple prefix context hack, which
makes it compatible with existing translation tool (see notes below about
GlotPress support).
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'''Notes:'''
- I added support in GlotPress for the `_wpg` context prefix via
[https://github.com/GlotPress/GlotPress-WP/pull/855 GP Pull request 855]
and the simple [https://github.com/yoavf/gp-gender gp-gender] plugin, to
make the UI more cohesive.
- The current patches are all fully functional but remain at the proof-of-
concept level. A healthy discussion on the implementation and possible
alternatives are more than welcome.
- For simplicity purposes, `g()` assumes English will remain gender
neutral, and so does only take one string as input. I'm happy to
reconsider and let it have an optional three string input.
- `_gx()` would be trivial to add, `gn()` not so much.
- This proposal is part of my [https://2017.us.wordcamp.org/sessions
/#wcorg-session-4139 WC US 2017 session].
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