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does anyone do due diligence on corporate names before launching? Sakana is a popular slang spelling of sacana, or bastard, in Português. I suppose self modifying code can be considered such, in some circumstances, but willingly pointing this out is probably less than stellar marketing.

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Does it matter? Maybe you should check English, Chinese and Spanish for some really offensive stuff, but past that... would it bring more money than a week or so of someone's work would cost?

The answers to those questions should be known concretely at least.

You never know when you start out a company. Maybe you'll never get any profit and it doesn't matter. Maybe you lose out on a few millions out of billions... and maybe it still doesn't matter? Then you can still release a locale-specific version if it becomes a problem.

Maybe you lose out on Brazil.

Reminds me of Ford when they brought the Pinto to Brazil.

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