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French inclusive writing
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The masculine is the neutral gender of the French language, and the question of inclusive writing is increasingly being asked. Some of our clients would like to use an epicene language on their Decidim instance, but the subject is very much discussed in France.
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So we are wondering what we should do to implement it:
- Adapt the french locale to make it as neutral as possible, and integrate the midpoint
- add a locale in decidim for French in inclusive writing
- make a translation overload in an osp-app.
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Might be funded by the city of Lausanne.
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It already is, at least in the German speaking part of Switzerland. I think one strategy we could use for the German part ist to use the gender-neutral form whenever possible. I know i know, it's not really inclusive, but I think using the gender* or gender:, as commonly used symbols, might even cause conflicts with the markup editor. So that might be a solid way to start, and then improve per installation with the term-customizer?
But it all already starts sounding weird with the term "Benutzer" (user). @Romy_GK_austria have you had any further thoughts yet?
@larskaiser, I agree that we could go for a gender-neutral form, which would be the best solution in terms of accessibility. From my point of view it would be ideal to have one well-maintained german translation (no swiss/austrian/gender...) which needs to be as gender-neutral as possible. ;) Some terms will need more thought, such as Benutzer. But I'm optimistic that we would find solutions for the tricky words.
Yes, completely agree. Are you registered for the German translation on crowdin yet? I think we could continue the discussion there while looking at concrete examples.
https://crowdin.com/project/decidim
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