[gentoo-user] LINGUAS issue

[Francisco Ares]

Hi, all.

My locale language is "pt_BR" (Brazilian Portuguese), and many applications
now support native translations.

And there is the "pt" possible LINGUAS entry, and there is no "pt_PT"
(Portugal spoken Portuguese), for instance, neither any derivatives for
other Portuguese speaking countries, which possibly have their own regional
differences.

There are a few applications that do not distinguish "pt_BR" from "pt" and
treat Portuguese language as simply "pt". An example is the OCR program
"tesseract", that builds language specifics according to the LINGUAS
environment variable.

Is there a way for specifying particular "LINGUAS" for individual
packages?  I would not like to have to build dozens of applications to
include "pt" to my "LINGUAS" definition just to have "tesseract" to include
my native language support.  I've found some old messages about this on the
net, but did not get any real solution.

Or should I ask the "tesseract" package maintainer to add "pt_BR" to the
available options?

Thanks a lot for your time,
Francisco