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> Or should an article in Portuguese in a Brazilian newspaper write Deutschland instead of Alemanha?

What bizarre examples, those are entirely different words, I'm talking about a minor difference in acentuation. And I don't care what the rule is, it's disrespectful, it's an article, and copy and paste exists.

They even do it with proper names. You don't change proper names. The name is "Pelé", not "skin". So disrespectful.

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Let is keep it to South America then.

Do you think you're disrespectful when you write "Peru" (Portuguese dropped the diacritic from "Perú") or "Colômbia" (now we added a diacritic that is not in the original "Colombia")? What about "Paraguai": why is "Paraguay" so hard to type that we had to change it?

And this is coming from a sister language, Spanish.

I think you're not paying attention to how languages work.

I don't think you understand how copy and paste works... if the English Wikipedia can do it, I think article writers can do as well.

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