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Improve Brazilian Portuguese Localization
I am a native Brazilian Portuguese speaker, and found some things which could be improved on the pt_br localisation. The changes are based on both Microsoft products Notepad and VS Code. Here are the types of changes I made.
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Make initial letters uppercase in non-first words, except those which are not in Portuguese orthography. This is inconsistent in both Notepad and VS Code. However, the English original does this, and I think it looks better. For example, "Novo arquivo" becomes "Novo Arquivo". Much more professional, I think.
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Add an article because it looks more idiomatic this way, specially in Portuguese. An article is "the" or "an". For example, "Abrir o arquivo" becomes "Abrir o arquivo".
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Word changes to commonly used ones in Portuguese. Since they are few, I describe the reasoning behind all of them below. 1. "Cortar" > "Recordar". In both Notepad and VS Code, and all my life, the word "recortar" is used, not "cortar". 2. "Encontrar" > "Localizar". Both words work, but "Localizar" is the choice for both Notepad and VS Code. 3. "Quebra de Linha" > "Quebra Automática de Linha". Only the second translation works, since the first is very confusing; both Notepad and VS Code use the second translation.
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Corrected lack of diacritical marks and corrected orthography, with only one example. - "Maius/minus" > "Maiús/Minús".
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More commonly used words, with only three examples. - "Palvra" > "Palavra Inteira". The first is ambiguous and VS Code also chooses the second. - "Tabulações" > "Tabulação." Technically, both work; however, most Brazilian people recognise the key "Tab" as "Tab", not as "Tabulação", although technically more correct. Since the English original is comfortable with "Tab" and not "tabulator", I think it is both better for Brazilian speakers and more consistent with the English original, to use "Tab". - "Sobrescrevê-lo" > "Substituí-lo". Both technically work, but the second is more intuitively understood and the one used in Notepad and VS Code.
I merged most of your suggestions into #596. I did credit you as a co-author but forgot to link the PR. I apologize for that. Thank you for the improvements!
