Re: [Gnumed-devel] modification request: display of DOB and Gender

[Karsten Hilbert]

On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 08:50:51PM -0800, James Busser wrote:

> Good. I understand you were preferring to preserve real estate as much as 
> possible.
Yes.

> I have one more idea. It can be very useful in phone communications or in 
> other verifications to easily have available the current patient's date of 
> birth.
...
> This would permit us to combine the newly reclaimed 70 pixels of width with 
> the "Age" space, to provide a combination of Age + Gender + DOB, pushing 
> Caveat slightly to the right if needed, to yield:
>
>       YYYY-MM-DD Gender YYageMMage
>
>       e.g. 1958-05-14 M 59y8m
>
> or
>
>       YYageMMage Gender YYYY-MM-DD
>
> I would abbreviate Gender in this display to the first character (in many 
> cases, regardless of language, this will be M or F, or rarely T).
In the world of unicode there are universally understood
symbols... A male-female combination stands for
hermaphrodite. And with a bit of creativity there's useful
symbols for tf/tm, too :-)  (I use <male+female> + either of
male or female for tm or tf.

Karsten
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