Hi, I noticed there are new options for Hebrew in the form of he@male and he@female, is there some sort of international standard to support this setting?
In general, although possible, this could be a very big change and needs some further refinements and warnings (This change requires supporting those codes on the client side and ask the end user for his/her gender to display the correct Hebrew form which invades privacy).
I’m trying to understand the motivation and if there are any other languages that applied this change.
Thanks.
The he@male and he@female options were created as custom language codes to support a very specific use case for one of our customers. These are not part of any international standard like BCP 47 or ISO language codes, and we generally don’t recommend using them unless you’re addressing a similarly unique scenario.
This customization does indeed come with important caveats — as you pointed out, it requires the client-side application to determine and handle the user’s gender appropriately, which can have privacy implications and technical overhead.
At this time, no other languages in our system follow this pattern, and we don’t plan to generalize this approach unless there’s strong demand and a clear, privacy-conscious solution. For most applications, we suggest sticking to standard language codes and handling gender-specific variation through context or localization best practices.
Hope this helps clarify things! Let us know if you have further questions.
