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 -- GPG key ID E4071346 @ wwwkeys.pgp.net E167 67FD A291 2BEA 73BD 4537 78B9 A9F9 E407 1346
