On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 01:34:17PM +0100, H.J. Sanders wrote:
> > I would also suggest using a *coded* gender, not "male",
> > "female" strings which will make gender-based calculations a
> > lot easier down the road.
>
> Which will also make it easier to have a "multi-langual" solution.
Which, precisely, is one of the reason GNUmed does it that
way. We then have a table gender_label which can translate
the code into a string (both English as a base language and
a local language via "select _(label) from gender_label".
(Yes, we sort of re-implemented gettext in SQL ;-)
Karsten
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