the thing is this: many languages distinguish between male and female form.Highway of Life wrote:Custom profile field, 5 second addition to your board. Therefore it doesn’t make sense to program it in.dkarlovi wrote: * user's gender field
adding gender field to phpbb code would allow translators to do something like this:
at beginning of language file:
$female = $user->gender == "female";
and then, later on, for any particular string:
'SEND_PRIVATE_MESSAGE' => $female ? 'female form of string' : 'male form of string',
while leaving the non-gender-sensitive entries as-is.
having a custom-profile field with gender does not help. first, it would be individual to every board, and worse, the custom-profile fields are not accessible through the $user variables.
of course, English doesn't have this distinction, so it may be a little difficult to understand for an English-only speaker...