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What does "grammatical gender" mean here? (europe.pub)
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Ok, I was looking at developer options and found this "grammatical gender" mean in terms of android device? Like, I tried selecting it and doesn't seem to do anything....

Device is Galaxy A71 with lineage os 22.2, also my Galaxy A55 with stock oneUI 7 has it. (Both android 15) like what does it do? Just curious...

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[-] JRaccoon@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 month ago

It's up to each app developer whether they wanna use the new API. According to the docs linked in this thread, each app needs to ask the user separately which option they prefer (so as of right now, there isn't a system wide option for it).

So it's not very clear to me why that option exists, even as a developer setting. Maybe Android itself uses it for its UI, but it's still in the testing phase? Someone who has their phone set to one of those gendered languages could test it to see if changing the setting actually changes anything.

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