Portuguese (Brazil), completing Phase 1
781 of 796 strings; the fifteen left are product names, bare URLs and example addresses. Generated by AI, unreviewed, marked Beta. This is Brazilian Portuguese specifically, and the tag says so rather than claiming "Portuguese". It is not a stand-in for European Portuguese: the vocabulary diverges in exactly the places a mail client lives -- arquivo against ficheiro, tela against ecrã -- and offering one variety as though it were the other is worse than offering English, because the reader cannot tell it was not meant for them. A pt-PT catalogue would be a separate file. Register is "você", and this is the one place Phase 1 deliberately breaks its own rule. The other four all took the formal address; Brazilian Portuguese has no comfortable equivalent. "O senhor" is deferential rather than merely polite and reads as stiff or sarcastic in software, while "você" is the neutral default Gmail, Outlook and every Brazilian bank use, carrying none of the familiarity "du" or "tu" would elsewhere. Following the rule here would have produced a worse translation by obeying a decision made about other languages. The rule was always "address the reader the way the language does it", and these five are what that looks like rather than five copies of one answer. "Marcador" for label, which is Gmail's word in Brazil: a fourth different outcome from the same rule about using what the reader will meet elsewhere, after English, Libellé and Etiqueta. Phase 1 is complete: de, fr, nl, es, pt-BR, each unreviewed and each marked Beta until a speaker signs it off. That review is the part nobody has done and the part that decides whether any of this was worth shipping.
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@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ export interface UiLanguage {
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export const UI_LANGUAGES: readonly UiLanguage[] = [
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{ tag: "en", name: "English" },
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{ tag: "de", name: "Deutsch", beta: true },
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{ tag: "pt-BR", name: "Português (Brasil)", beta: true },
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];
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/** Where to report a bad translation. Beta languages depend on it. */
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