[Lazarus] Lazarus Portuguese translation situation

[Paulo Costa]

On 30/08/2011 20:44, Maxim Ganetsky wrote:
> Hello.
>
> Currently we have regularly maintained Brazilian Portuguese (pt_BR)
> translation and unmaintained Portuguese (pt_PT) one, which was copied
> from the former and thus not entirely correct.
>
> I think that if Portuguese translation won't be updated it should be
> removed before next Lazarus release.

Hi, from a previous discussion I promised to update the pt_PT 
translation. I have started the translation but it is going slower.
I started at the same time that 0.9.30 was going to be released and as I 
was told to work with the trunk version I figured that I had plenty of 
time before next version.

> I would like to get Portuguese community members opinions on what we
> should do:
>
> 1) Just remove it before the next release if it won't be fixed/updated.
> 2) Remove it and make pt_BR translation the default (pt).
> 3) 'Merge' these translations and leave only one unified Portuguese
> translation conforming to latest Portuguese orthographic agreement
> (AFAIK has some semantical issues).
> 4) Any other option I didn't think of.

if 4) can be: I will maintain it. I would see it as the be the best option.

Beware that this is a topic that can lead to a small flame war between 
the few Portuguese here and the larger Brazilian community. While is 
true that there was a very small difference between Portuguese and 
Brazilian orthography and that was unified with the latest agreement, 
the main differences are semantical. Many times, the word used to 
describe a certain concept are not the same, allowing you to identify 
the writer origin in one or two phrases.

Paulo Costa