diff --git a/locale/pt_BR.po b/locale/pt_BR.po
index 288750ca21dd..836bb3446e8d 100644
--- a/locale/pt_BR.po
+++ b/locale/pt_BR.po
@@ -6,15 +6,15 @@ msgstr ""
 "Project-Id-Version: PACKAGE VERSION\n"
 "Report-Msgid-Bugs-To: \n"
 "POT-Creation-Date: 2021-01-04 12:55-0600\n"
-"PO-Revision-Date: 2023-11-16 15:03+0000\n"
-"Last-Translator: Dan Halbert <halbert@halwitz.org>\n"
+"PO-Revision-Date: 2023-11-28 06:04+0000\n"
+"Last-Translator: Wellington Terumi Uemura <wellingtonuemura@gmail.com>\n"
 "Language-Team: \n"
 "Language: pt_BR\n"
 "MIME-Version: 1.0\n"
 "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8\n"
 "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n"
 "Plural-Forms: nplurals=2; plural=n > 1;\n"
-"X-Generator: Weblate 5.2\n"
+"X-Generator: Weblate 5.3-dev\n"
 
 #: main.c
 msgid ""
@@ -1615,7 +1615,7 @@ msgstr "Ok"
 #: ports/raspberrypi/common-hal/audiobusio/PDMIn.c
 #, c-format
 msgid "Only 8 or 16 bit mono with %dx oversampling supported."
-msgstr ""
+msgstr "Somente mono de 8 ou 16 bits com %dx de sobreamostragem são suportados."
 
 #: ports/espressif/common-hal/wifi/__init__.c
 #: ports/raspberrypi/common-hal/wifi/__init__.c
diff --git a/py/modbuiltins.c b/py/modbuiltins.c
index 3faa6a94896c..f7294d9038c7 100644
--- a/py/modbuiltins.c
+++ b/py/modbuiltins.c
@@ -137,30 +137,12 @@ MP_DEFINE_CONST_FUN_OBJ_1(mp_builtin_callable_obj, mp_builtin_callable);
 STATIC mp_obj_t mp_builtin_chr(mp_obj_t o_in) {
     #if MICROPY_PY_BUILTINS_STR_UNICODE
     mp_uint_t c = mp_obj_get_int(o_in);
-    uint8_t str[4];
-    int len = 0;
-    if (c < 0x80) {
-        *str = c;
-        len = 1;
-    } else if (c < 0x800) {
-        str[0] = (c >> 6) | 0xC0;
-        str[1] = (c & 0x3F) | 0x80;
-        len = 2;
-    } else if (c < 0x10000) {
-        str[0] = (c >> 12) | 0xE0;
-        str[1] = ((c >> 6) & 0x3F) | 0x80;
-        str[2] = (c & 0x3F) | 0x80;
-        len = 3;
-    } else if (c < 0x110000) {
-        str[0] = (c >> 18) | 0xF0;
-        str[1] = ((c >> 12) & 0x3F) | 0x80;
-        str[2] = ((c >> 6) & 0x3F) | 0x80;
-        str[3] = (c & 0x3F) | 0x80;
-        len = 4;
-    } else {
+    if (c >= 0x110000) {
         mp_raise_ValueError(MP_ERROR_TEXT("chr() arg not in range(0x110000)"));
     }
-    return mp_obj_new_str_via_qstr((char *)str, len);
+    VSTR_FIXED(buf, 4);
+    vstr_add_char(&buf, c);
+    return mp_obj_new_str_via_qstr(buf.buf, buf.len);
     #else
     mp_int_t ord = mp_obj_get_int(o_in);
     if (0 <= ord && ord <= 0xff) {
diff --git a/supervisor/shared/translate/translate.c b/supervisor/shared/translate/translate.c
index e0b5fb897ac9..e23047c9a24e 100644
--- a/supervisor/shared/translate/translate.c
+++ b/supervisor/shared/translate/translate.c
@@ -57,37 +57,23 @@ STATIC void get_word(int n, const mchar_t **pos, const mchar_t **end) {
     *end = *pos + len;
 }
 
-STATIC int put_utf8(char *buf, int u) {
+STATIC void put_utf8(vstr_t *vstr, int u) {
     if (u >= translation_offstart) {
         u += translation_offset;
     }
-    if (u <= 0x7f) {
-        *buf = u;
-        return 1;
-    } else if (word_start <= u && u <= word_end) {
+    if (word_start <= u && u <= word_end) {
         uint n = (u - word_start);
         const mchar_t *pos, *end;
         get_word(n, &pos, &end);
-        int ret = 0;
         // note that at present, entries in the words table are
         // guaranteed not to represent words themselves, so this adds
         // at most 1 level of recursive call
         for (; pos < end; pos++) {
-            int len = put_utf8(buf, *pos);
-            buf += len;
-            ret += len;
+            put_utf8(vstr, *pos);
         }
-        return ret;
-    } else if (u <= 0x07ff) {
-        *buf++ = 0b11000000 | (u >> 6);
-        *buf = 0b10000000 | (u & 0b00111111);
-        return 2;
-    } else { // u <= 0xffff
-        *buf++ = 0b11100000 | (u >> 12);
-        *buf++ = 0b10000000 | ((u >> 6) & 0b00111111);
-        *buf = 0b10000000 | (u & 0b00111111);
-        return 3;
+        return;
     }
+    vstr_add_char(vstr, u);
 }
 
 uint16_t decompress_length(mp_rom_error_text_t compressed) {
@@ -123,15 +109,15 @@ static int get_nbits(bitstream_state_t *st, int n) {
     return r;
 }
 
-char *decompress(mp_rom_error_text_t compressed, char *decompressed) {
+static void decompress_vstr(mp_rom_error_text_t compressed, vstr_t *decompressed) {
     bitstream_state_t b = {
         .ptr = &(compressed->data) + (compress_max_length_bits >> 3),
         .bit = 1 << (7 - ((compress_max_length_bits) & 0x7)),
     };
-    uint16_t length = decompress_length(compressed);
 
+    size_t alloc = decompressed->alloc - 1;
     // Stop one early because the last byte is always NULL.
-    for (uint16_t i = 0; i < length - 1;) {
+    for (; decompressed->len < alloc;) {
         uint32_t bits = 0;
         uint8_t bit_length = 0;
         uint32_t max_code = lengths[0];
@@ -148,16 +134,19 @@ char *decompress(mp_rom_error_text_t compressed, char *decompressed) {
         int v = values[searched_length + bits - max_code];
         if (v == 1) {
             qstr q = get_nbits(&b, translation_qstr_bits) + 1; // honestly no idea why "+1"...
-            for (const char *qc = qstr_str(q); *qc;) {
-                decompressed[i++] = *qc++;
-            }
+            vstr_add_str(decompressed, qstr_str(q));
         } else {
-            i += put_utf8(decompressed + i, v);
+            put_utf8(decompressed, v);
         }
     }
+}
 
-    decompressed[length - 1] = '\0';
-    return decompressed;
+
+char *decompress(mp_rom_error_text_t compressed, char *decompressed) {
+    vstr_t vstr;
+    vstr_init_fixed_buf(&vstr, decompress_length(compressed), decompressed);
+    decompress_vstr(compressed, &vstr);
+    return vstr_null_terminated_str(&vstr);
 }
 
 #if CIRCUITPY_TRANSLATE_OBJECT == 1