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This is actually an issue that should be solved at the English level. All words starting with a 'g' that are pronounced 'j' should be written with a 'j'.
Girl -> Girl
Giraffe -> jiraffe
GIF -> GIFGordons Jin?
I like your way of thinking. Now, what about damned "Pacific Ocean"?
Pasifik Owshyn
Paowoific ocishin
See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English-language_spelling_reform
English has been the total outlier among (originally) European language with no body of authority over its spelling. Even the “reform” by Noah Webster never really caught on outside North America, nearly 100 years later. And even more curious, the somewhat authoritative Oxford English Dictionary disagrees in their spelling with everybody (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_spelling).