Nationalities named as nationalities (“Portuguese”), not as countries #865

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opened 2026-10-10 16:01:32 +00:00 by tiagoagueda · 1 comment

tiagoagueda commented

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Nationalities should read Portuguese, French, Spanish, not the countries' names.

What exists today

Each nationality is a country menu (accounts/forms.py:757-778, core/postal.CountrySelect), stored as ISO alpha-2 (at most 10, core/personal.py:197), printed with country_names() (:257). Country names come from core/phones.py:89, deliberately in English (:81-87).
No demonyms anywhere, and CLDR (Babel) has territory names but no demonyms.

What would change

A data table of demonyms, ~250 codes × each language the CV is written in, gendered where the language is (fr portugais/portugaise, pt português/portuguesa), with its source recorded; the menu shows demonyms, the CV prints them.

Decisions

Source. Recommended: Wikidata's demonym (P1549) for the codes and languages it covers, extracted once into a committed file like the other reference data, the gaps filled by hand and listed.
Gender agreement uses the person's gender field when set, the masculine (the dictionary form) otherwise. Recommended, to be confirmed for each language.
The menu keeps the country's name beside the demonym for searching (Portuguese (Portugal)). Recommended.

Checked against main at 8c3d03570. From the maintainer's improvements list of 2026-10-07.

Nationalities should read *Portuguese, French, Spanish*, not the countries' names. ## What exists today - Each nationality is a country menu (`accounts/forms.py:757-778`, `core/postal.CountrySelect`), stored as ISO alpha-2 (at most 10, `core/personal.py:197`), printed with `country_names()` (`:257`). Country names come from `core/phones.py:89`, deliberately in English (`:81-87`). - **No demonyms anywhere**, and CLDR (Babel) has territory names but no demonyms. ## What would change - A data table of demonyms, ~250 codes × each language the CV is written in, gendered where the language is (fr *portugais/portugaise*, pt *português/portuguesa*), with its source recorded; the menu shows demonyms, the CV prints them. ## Decisions - **Source.** Recommended: Wikidata's *demonym* (P1549) for the codes and languages it covers, extracted once into a committed file like the other reference data, the gaps filled by hand and listed. - **Gender agreement** uses the person's gender field when set, the masculine (the dictionary form) otherwise. Recommended, to be confirmed for each language. - **The menu** keeps the country's name beside the demonym for searching (*Portuguese (Portugal)*). Recommended. Checked against `main` at `8c3d03570`. From the maintainer's improvements list of 2026-10-07.

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