Re: Name for the language in translation lists

[Cassiano dos Santos]

My suggestion is that we keep only "português" as Wikipedia do in their articles.

The Portuguese language was unified for almost all if not all Portuguese language spoken countries with the "Portuguese Language Orthographic Agreement of 1990" (https://en.wikipedia.or/wiki/Portuguese_Language_Orthographic_Agreement_of_1990).

This agreement is being adopted by the countries step by step, but in Brazil it was adopted definitively in January, 2016.

"In Brazil, the Portuguese Language Orthographic Agreement of 1990 was in effect, on a transitional basis, from January 1, 2009 to December 31, 2015. From January 1, 2016, the agreement entered into force definitively and mandatory" (https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acordo_Ortogr%C3%A1fico_de_1990#Brasil, free translation of the Wikipedia Portuguese article).

So, as I know by now Portugal Portuguese is not adopting the agreement, at least in practice.

I think that, in the future, we could unify the Portuguese translation in one integrated team for all Portuguese spoken language countries. But by now I suggest that we keep only "português" for our translations in Brazil.

Best regards,

Cassiano R. N. dos Santos

Em ter., 10 de mar. de 2020 às 20:07, Rafael Fontenelle <address@hidden> escreveu:

Hello Ineiev,

Do you have a char limit in mind?

Ideas that I can think of:

português (Brasil)
português (BR)
port. brasil.           *
português             **
Brasil                    ***

* abbreviation from http://www.academia.org.br/nossa-lingua/reducoes
** considering that there is a "[pt-br]" next to it
*** It is an option, but it would be only one using the country name

Best regards,
Rafael Fontenelle

Em ter., 10 de mar. de 2020 às 06:33, Ineiev <address@hidden> escreveu:
>
> Hello,
>
> Currently, links to Brazilian Portuguese translations are marked
> "português do Brasil"; it's the longest name we use in www.gnu.org.
>
> As part of making www.gnu.org more usable with smaller screens,
> we'd like to reduce the maximum length of those items.
>
> Could you suggest a shorter label for www.gnu.org?
>
> Thank you!