Thinking about this more and reading the above comments I really think that the gender is not really needed, here. The XnView Forum is not a single or flirt site, so I really think that here a "gender indicator" is pretty superflous.
Add male, female, and "other" genders to the site. The symbol for the "other" gender can be the one prince changed his name to. You could also add a plain circle for "none", and a question mark for "damned if I know".
Drahken wrote:I never could figure out the origin of the female symbol. The male one is obvious, but what's the horizontal line on the female one supposed to represent? Her bust? The bottom of here skirt? Nothing at all? ...?
They are Venus' mirror and Mars' spear and shield.
Guest wrote:
They are Venus' mirror and Mars' spear and shield.
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those symbols and others are now part of unicode. I'm curious about which ones can be seen on various OS (just to add some chrome).
Ex:
♔♕ (U+2654 and U+2655)...chess; king and queen
helmut wrote:Thinking about this more and reading the above comments I really think that the gender is not really needed, here. The XnView Forum is not a single or flirt site, so I really think that here a "gender indicator" is pretty superflous.
