Best way to represent Gender in a class library used in multilingual applications
- by Hauge
I'm creating class library with some commonly used classes like persons, addresses etc. This library will be used in an multilingual application, and I am looking for the most convenient way to represent a persons gender.
Ideally I would like to be able to code like this:
Person person = new Person { Gender = Genders.Male,
FirstName = "Nice",
LastName = "Dude" }
if (person.Gender == Genders.Male)
Console.WriteLine("person is Male");
Console.WriteLine(person.Gender); //Should output: Male
Console.WriteLine(person.Gender.ToString("da-DK"));
//Should output the name of the gender in the language provided
List<Gender> genders = Genders.GetAll();
foreach(Gender gender in genders)
{
Console.WriteLine(gender.ToString());
Console.WriteLine(gender.ToString("da-DK"));
}
What would you do? An enumeration and a specialized Gender class, but what about the localization then?
Regards
Jesper Hauge
