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From: Demetrio Girardi
Sent: 01/25/12 03:49 AM
To: django-users@googlegroups.com
Subject: Determine gender from first name
This is not a django-specific question, but I couldn't find anything useful on
the subject and have no better place to ask. Let's say I want to put "welcome
{{user.first_name}}" on top of my template. In many languages, "welcome" has to
be declined by gender. I have no use for the user's gender otherwise, so I
don't want to ask for it in the registration process. How can I go about this?
Is there a publicly available database of first names divided by language and
gender? A public web-service that guesstimates the gender? -- You received this
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What about the boy named Sue?
In some cultures, guessing "male" might be somewhat acceptable. On the other
hand, any guess could be wrong---and offensive. My advice is to ask. Perhaps
make it optional, with a default to one or the other; at least if they take
offense they can fix it.
Of course, you could reword your translation so as to get around this, but
that may be more difficult and awkward than it's worth.
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