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Hey, this problem happened to me too and I just solved it. I'm using Windows so idk if this works on MacOs. But here's what I did (not an expert on these things, this is just what worked with me):

First of all, the problem is (probably) with the Brazilian Portuguese language (don't know why). So, you just have to find the location where the configurations of itch.io app is and change the locale from 'pt-BR' back to 'en-US'.

To do this in Windows:
1.  Go to C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\itch
2. Open the "preferences.json" file with the NotePad, go to the end of the line and you'll see the part where it says the language you chose. Change to this: "lang":"en-US".
3.  Open the "Preferences" file with the NotePad and change the dictionaries part to 'en-US' (that's what you'll do with basically everything). I don't know if changing the dictionaries is essential to solving this, but I changed just in case.
4.  Now go to Partitions\itch-app and do the same thing of Step 3.
5. Go to Partitions\itchio-3424454 and do the same thing of Step 3.

And that's basically everything I did. If you want to, you can delete every file related to or named with 'pt-BR', just to be sure that it'll work. Again, I don't know if this is accurate, I'm not a specialist or anything haha. You can also delete the entire "itch" folder on Roaming and reinstall the app to see if it works!

Good luck, guys!!

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I managed to do this with my Mac, and it worked! Thank you so much for your help! It was relatively easy to find all the files. They have all the same names and suffixes. So if anyone else has this problem, it shouldn't be too much trouble to follow these steps with either type of computer.

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it works! but I had to press Windows + R and I put "appdata" and after that I followed your tutorial

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There is an easier solution, and you are still able to use the pt-BR lang just fine. I went online and found the solution, gonna keep it for posterity here if anyone needs it.
This is caused by an error in the preferences.json file, where it should be pt-BR it is pt_BR which causes the error to fix this is quite simple:

1. Open the preferences.json file which is located C:\Users\{YourUser}\AppData\Roaming\itch for windows users (You can also access this by using Windows + R and type %appdata% , or you can just put that in the big bar at the top of your explorer) and ~/Library/Application Support/itch for MacOS users.

2. locate and change the pt_BR for pt-BR and you should be good to go after quiting and closing the app.

I honestly hope that the devs can correct this thing, it shouldn't take long for it, a simple update would do.  Anyways, hope it helps!