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[Freamon]

Field: "GENDER"
Length: 7
Values: 'F' or 'M'.

Example values specified? You don't know you're born.

[fullyautomatix]

Field: "GENDER"
Length: 7
Values: 'F' or 'M'.

Well if they have the length as 1 like you suggested and a new government legislation came around to include transexuals or "none" or "NA" , you will then charge them a grand to increase the length. This way they have future proofed for at least 50 years.

[darmstadt]

Why does gender matter at all in this day and age? Unless it's a dating site.

I'm pretty sure some of the posters on this site have more than one gender

[DaveB]

But what about percentages? How will it cope with that?

BBC News - Richard O'Brien: ?I'm 70% man'

[tractor]

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7 is indeed correct!

It covers Male/Female/Pervert

[tractor]

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Trying to use as few bytes as possible is exactly the thinking that caused the millennium bug. This shows remarkable foresight.

What bug? Do you mean a fear of bugs?

People were drafted in by the dozen to scour mainframe code for dates and when it was all over, claimed expert status, screwing the market for a couple of years as I remember

[doodab]

How very insensitive. Don't they realise how many different kinds of cheese there are? Do you think a creamy dolcelatte wants to be treated like a nice bit of crumbly cheshire?

[SupremeSpod]

Let's not be too hasty - "NOTSURE" is 7 bytes

Not in unicode, it ain't!

[vetran]

woofter=7

[Ignis Fatuus]

Tax system?

Insurance quotes?

I am sure there are plenty of other examples.

well it relates to identification so I can see that it is required.

I have seen more, for example a personnel system in an African country where there were records for wives (many-to-one) and they included the wives' heights. This was to help ID in the case of someone claiming to be a wife and obtaining company medical treatment.

[Sysman]

Why does gender matter at all in this day and age? Unless it's a dating site.

Tax system?

Insurance quotes?

I am sure there are plenty of other examples.

[Mich the Tester]

LGB became LGBT became LGBT* when they realised there are far to many variations ... * for miscellaneous (LGBT - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)

A stands for "association" in my context.

But technically I'm wrong, LGBT* is about sexuality not gender-identity.

Right, so if you recognise transsexuals in the various phases of transition as one seperate gender group then there should at least be an option for trisexuals. Or more.

[mudskipper]

LGB became LGBT became LGBT* when they realised there are far to many variations ... * for miscellaneous (LGBT - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)

A stands for "association" in my context.

But technically I'm wrong, LGBT* is about sexuality not gender-identity.

My interpretation was almost right then.

[mudskipper]

Well seeing as people have apparently already done bestiality and necrophilia, what could remain to be thought up?

Ask xog.

[Mich the Tester]

A is Asexual.
* is a wildcard for sexual orientations that haven't been thought up yet.

Well seeing as people have apparently already done bestiality and necrophilia, what could remain to be thought up?