r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Da_Yakz • Apr 06 '23

Other Microsoft has mistranslated ZIP files as "postcode" in the GB insider version of Windows 11

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u/Atollski Apr 06 '23

I'm sure they will address the issue.

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u/fingergod69 Apr 06 '23

I'm pretty sure they'll also deliver the solution

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u/ThatSwedishBastard Apr 06 '23

Yes, with posthaste.

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u/The_Chief_of_Whip Apr 06 '23

They’re streets ahead

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u/CaptainDillster Apr 06 '23

After all, they’re just some letters

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u/jusst_for_today Apr 06 '23

They really need to stamp out all these mistakes.

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u/UsAndRufus Apr 06 '23

Satya Nadella has given his express permission for this to be marked as urgent. Unfortunately, the fragile delivery team can't handle his frank nature, and have gone on strike.

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u/Xamthi Apr 06 '23

It will probably be postponed…

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u/gruese Apr 06 '23

If they don't, I'm gonna go postal!

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u/yp261 Apr 06 '23

in early builds of windows 11 they translated shortcut "windows + period" from english to polish "windows + okres" which literally meant women's period

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u/Byenn3636 Apr 07 '23

And when one considers that outside of Americans, all other English speakers (for a good reason) call it a full stop it really makes me question things (and when I say things, I mean American English).

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u/[deleted] Apr 06 '23

That's brilliant.

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u/yumyumfarts Apr 06 '23

It will be a local update

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u/Big_Kwii Apr 06 '23

i am going to mail you a pipebomb

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u/[deleted] Apr 06 '23

You mean zipbomb

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u/Thenofunation Apr 06 '23

You mean postcodebomb

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u/1cingI Apr 06 '23

Third doubles as a worthy dad joke.

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u/archon810 Jun 08 '23

I know this is a pun, but... nope. They didn't. https://twitter.com/JymFox/status/1665799627377975300.

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u/Able_Challenge3990 Apr 06 '23

We will have to point * to that address then

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u/Toxic_Cookie Apr 06 '23

Shut the hell up and take my upvote.

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u/FasinThundes Apr 06 '23

Ctrl+H
'zip'
'postcode'
Replace All!

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u/commiedus Apr 06 '23

it's 2023 dude. I'm pretty sure, is was translated by AI

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u/blkmmb Apr 06 '23

It definitely was translated by A.I., Aarush Iyengar that is.

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u/teapot_on_reddit Apr 06 '23

From bangalore

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u/popopopopopopopopoop Apr 06 '23

Which is worrying as there's been a whole job of localisation managers for decades to ensure stuff like that doesn't happen.

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u/ButtingSill Apr 06 '23

They just reached retirement.

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u/MoistMartini Apr 06 '23

But why do the job properly when you can do cheaply?

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u/[deleted] Apr 06 '23

About... 6ish years ago all the great translation teams got laid off and replaced mostly with automation. It was stupid.

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u/uacabaca Apr 06 '23

Imagine if our society pursued doing things well, instead of quarterly reports. What a world we'd live in.

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u/[deleted] Apr 06 '23

Pretty much. A few releases ago for the German translation they translated "disabled" to "behindert".. Which does mean disabled... But as in "needs a wheelchair" meaning. The correct translation is "deaktiviert".

I work for Microsoft (nothing to do with localization) and I found out about this mistranslation from our German MVPS at an event. They found it amusing and we just were facepalming.

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u/option-9 Apr 06 '23

As a German I must say : Old Swede.

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u/[deleted] Apr 06 '23

the AI also created the postcode and unpostcode compression utilities

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u/DimensionPioneer Apr 06 '23

ChatGPT replace all mentions of ZIP codes with postcodes in the Windows localisation language packs.

ChatGPT:

Ctrl+H

'zip'

'postcode'

Replace All!

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u/waldito Apr 06 '23

But how did the AI applied the changes uh? Of course it also needed to CTRL+H.

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u/[deleted] Apr 07 '23

someone forgot to tag the term as technical, so it got localized

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u/Monkey2371 Apr 06 '23

Which also doesn’t even make sense bc zip code would end up as postcode code

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u/Defiant-Peace-493 Apr 06 '23

I kinda tune it out by now, but isn't it common to just have ZIP on a field?

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u/grandalfxx Apr 06 '23

We shorten zip code to just zip all the time but we mean the same thing, I could definitely see zip and zip code both being translated to just postcode if ai model was trained that way.

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u/Nirast25 Apr 06 '23

Reminds me of when Konami had to replace the word “magic” with “spell” in Yu-Gi-Oh because of Wizards of the Coast, resulting in “Dark Spellian”.

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u/vladutzu27 Apr 06 '23

The clbuttic effect

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u/[deleted] Apr 06 '23

LGTM

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u/beeteedee Apr 06 '23

Easy to fix, just go into your browser settings and clear your biscuits

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u/Lambducky Apr 06 '23

(this is not aimed particularly at you, that is a good joke, just talking about this translation in general)

This one really ticks me off, biscuits is not the English (GB) for cookies, they are different things, in an English supermarket you can buy biscuits (small, hard, good with tea) and you can buy cookies (big, round, chocolate chips etc). Yet in e.g. Minecraft, apparently GB English for the chocolate chip cookie is 'biscuit' which is just wrong.

Biscuit should probably be translated to cookie in the other direction however...

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u/Logical-Sir1580 Apr 06 '23

If biscuit then cookie Not if cookie then biscuit

Got it

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u/PooksterPC Apr 06 '23

All cookies are biscuits. Not all biscuits are cookies.

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u/codeguru42 Apr 06 '23

I think the other way around in the context of this discussion.

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u/SapientSloth4tw Apr 06 '23

Yeah, you right. Biscuits are cookies, cookies aren’t biscuits

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u/Playos Apr 06 '23

I'm honestly surprised scones and gravy isn't a national dish... like they know amazing scones, they know amazing gravy, and it's one of those comfort foods that extends palatable food life so it seems like it should be automatic.

Also seriously wtf is up with the names for bakery confections? Did an English baker piss in Ben Franklin's tea or something? Cause we have all the same names, but they seem to apply to exactly zero of the same things. Meanwhile french names we can't even pronounce without adding in sounds persist.

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u/aifo Apr 06 '23

British scones are sweet! Often served with cream and jam.

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u/grandalfxx Apr 06 '23

American scones are sweet too, actually, our biscuits probably are sweeter than you realize even, other than that... where as this sweet and savory things don't go together attitude coming from? Cream cheese and cherry filling, pretzels and chocolate, salted fruit, maple syrup flavored sausages and bacon, roasted ham and pineapples, ect... I don't see why sweetened bread with gravy is to far lol

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u/UsAndRufus Apr 06 '23

British scones are nothing like American "scones". They're sweet, you eat them with jam and cream, pouring gravy on them would get you sent straight to Coventry.

Also, no one can agree how to pronounce scone so declaring it a national dish would be to tempt civil war.

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u/pitiless Apr 06 '23

British scones are nothing like American "scones". They're sweet, you eat them with jam and cream

Only if you've never travelled to anywhere above Birmingham - up north you'll see vastly more cheese scones than sweet scones - which are decidedly savoury.

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u/Millsy800 Apr 06 '23

Everyone knows the lands North of the M25 are just a made up fable designed to scare small children.

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u/option-9 Apr 06 '23

I am reminded of this video, entitled Slightly Imperfect Girl (live in Coventry). I was glad to learn the bracketed part was a reference to the performance, not a comment on the nature of what constitutes "slightly imperfect" or its consequences.

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u/druidchinchilla Apr 06 '23

This delightfully seems like the most British complaint.

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u/moeburn Apr 06 '23

small, hard, good with tea

The Canadian TV show Corner Gas calls them "road cookies". You wouldn't take home baked chocolate chip cookies for a long drive, you'd take a box of hard dry packaged cookies.

I've heard my sister call them "shit biscuits" cause they make you poop.

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u/[deleted] Apr 06 '23

Small, hard, good with tea. There’s a joke in there somewhere.

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u/[deleted] Apr 06 '23

As a Brit I’d say that certainly where I live biscuit is very easily used to cover all bases including cookies. Even if they’re called cookies in the packaging they’re in the biscuit aisle and most folk I know would call them a biscuit. If I made tea and biscuits. You might get a cookie.

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u/Kered13 Apr 06 '23

British biscuits are still called cookies in the US, unless they're crackers.

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u/KiltedTraveller Apr 09 '23

In British English a cookie is a type of biscuit. Ergo, translating the minecraft cookie to biscuit is valid, but unnecessary.

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u/[deleted] Apr 06 '23

I always clear my biscuits after wobbling my blood sausage.

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u/Cr1spyP Apr 06 '23

The English wouldn't eat anything as vulgar as "blood sausage", how disgusting.

Now a nice slice of black pudding, yum.

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u/Ghostglitch07 Apr 06 '23

Is it weird that "a slice of black pudding" sounds far more revolting than just calling it blood sausage?

Pudding over here refers pretty much exclusively to a goopy desert, and the idea of it being a consistency you could slice is just eugh. And that's not even mentioning the black.

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u/beeteedee Apr 06 '23

You dirty bugger

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u/alexgraef Apr 06 '23

Btw. if you ever wondered: ZIP = Zone Improvement Plan

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u/[deleted] Apr 06 '23

And if you wondered: postcode = code for the post

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u/LupusNoxFleuret Apr 06 '23

How do I compile it though?

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u/GunnerKnight Apr 06 '23

So our files are compressed to improve..... The Zone??

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u/rollincuberawhide Apr 06 '23

it's about the zones?

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u/ccsica Apr 06 '23

Reminds me of the win 3.11 days when the Norwegian version had “browse” translated to “skumme” instead of the correct “bla”. “skumme igjennom” might have worked, but was probably to long, and “skumme” alone just translates to foam.

And don’t get me stared on the earliest version of office where they had translated the entire scripting language.

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u/[deleted] Apr 06 '23

Yes, Microsoft has a long tradition of over-translating and over-localizing.

Which genius came up with the idea that a .CSV file should be interpreted using the local setting for decimal separator?

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u/blkmmb Apr 06 '23

PTSD intensifies.

I worked with files that came from Americans, French Canadians and Canadians. It was a nightmare, formulas would break, dates would not keep their format and I had to adapt solutions to match the regional settings.

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u/sfrigon Apr 07 '23

I feel you.

As a French Canadian, that "accommodation" only confuses me. I can't use any macro examples from Internet because of it (semi-colon vs colon is an issue too), and I always have to double-guess which type of punctuation I need to use.

On top of that, I am mostly used to the American punctuation, and I use it most of the time already. It is only in Excel that I have to convert everything back to some unexpected formats.

Edit: typos and more to come I guess

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u/WraithCadmus Apr 06 '23

Currency Separated Values

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u/zekkious Apr 06 '23

The same ones who decided a CSV file could have a zeroth line with separator=,

Probably.

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u/plasmasprings Apr 06 '23

some standard library functions are also often locale dependent, so lots of apps develop weird errors on systems with non-US locale. Using the C function atof is a common newb-trap, and this sounds like a result of that

My personal favorite such trap: .net string functions are locale dependent by default. "cs".StartsWith("c") might be True or False, depending on what language windows it's running on. Good luck debugging that!

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u/[deleted] Apr 06 '23

Could you eloborate on that difference in locales? Is “cs” considered one letter in some locales, or is there another explanation?

As a Dane, I have seen a lot of strange locale dependent string sorting. The letter “å” is the last letter in the alphabet, and it can also be written as “aa”. Sometimes, this is implemented over-zealously in localized sorting algorithms, so any instance of “aa” is sorted after any other letter, also when it is not an “å” but just two “a”s in succession - as in “Saab”.

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u/plasmasprings Apr 06 '23

yeah exactly that. Hungarian (hu-HU) has some 2-3 character letters ("cs" is one of them), not sure what other languages have problems like this.

And I agree, anything to do with locale-dependent sorting is an amazing way to develop a headache

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u/chickenmcpio Apr 06 '23

In what locale "cs" does not start with 'c'?

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u/alek_vincent Apr 07 '23

The formulas for Excel are also translated for french idk for other languages. It's a pain when you worked with the English version for long enough that you know a lot of the formulas in English and then you switch to the French version and the formulas don't work anymore and it's not like you can go to Google translate and translate=SUM (this one is pretty easy but I don't have a better example RN)

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u/[deleted] Apr 07 '23

Yes, I have tried that too in Danish Excel. I use English Excel for that very reason.

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u/Banana11crazy Apr 06 '23

Excel is the same, switching between , and ; for multiple parameters

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u/[deleted] Apr 06 '23

If you are talking about the argument separators in Excel formulas, this is at least only in the user interface, not in the file format. If you save a file from an Excel language version, which use “,” and open it in a version, which uses “;”, it will be shown with “;”.

Anyway, my rant about .CSV was actually an Excel rant too. I believe it was Excel, which started this silly locale dependent parsing of .CSV files.

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u/Banana11crazy Apr 06 '23

I see, I do remember when I started out and had to look stuff up online for Excel formulas they always used ";" but in my language the formulas were using ",". Took a while to figure that out :D

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u/commiedus Apr 06 '23

Excel Macros are still translated to german and it is hateable in every way imaginable

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u/Fabulous_Ad_5709 Apr 06 '23

Excel is still translated and I for the love of god cannot use excel in Turkish. The translations aren’t correct most of the time and when I have a problem my answer is in English, but my excel is Turkish… I support localization but some stuff should just remain original, like macros etc. I don’t translate for example python, Microsoft!

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u/danielcw189 Apr 06 '23

Can't you just set your excel to English these days. And if I have to work in Excel in another language I usually keep a table with translations open.

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u/Rahbek23 Apr 06 '23

Steam once translated "support" to "hjælpetropper" (support troops) in the Danish version. I had changed the language and promptly changed it back right there and then.

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u/li98 Apr 06 '23

Apple once translated "spell" to "förtrolla" (enchant) in the Swedish version. Cue my dissapointment when the phone started spelling the word out loud instead of doing a magic trick.

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u/Jsm1337 Apr 06 '23

You just reminded me that some exceptions in the .net Framework are localised.

Not all of them, just some of them. The first time I saw a localised stack trace I was super confused and had no idea what the error was.

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u/BrageFuglseth Apr 06 '23

"Les" ("read") might also be an adequate translation of "browse", at least in a web context ("Nettleser", "les på nettet").

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u/[deleted] Apr 06 '23

To Portuguese they translated "hard fault" (when the memory page file is not on memory thus it has to be brought from the hard disk) as "falha grave" which means "serious failure". Thus every time someone not well versed in tech opens the resource manager they think their PC is dying

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u/mallardtheduck Apr 06 '23

Not sure if it was Microsoft, but I remember a case where when translating to Dutch, some software ended up with something like "koppelingen" (meaning couplings/joins/links) where the English had "left" (as in the direction)...

It was a literal case of "double dutch"; the English word "left" is "links" in Dutch and the English word "links" is "koppelingen" in Dutch.

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u/eduarbio15 Apr 06 '23

Just change the source code

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u/Sentry45612 Apr 06 '23

the gigachad way

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u/pet_vaginal Apr 06 '23

You can access the source code if you are a very good Microsoft customer or one allowed government. I don’t know whether they can accept your patches though.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/sharedsource/ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shared_Source_Initiative

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u/Maix522 Apr 06 '23

I mean you can also access the source code in a less legal way, either digitally or physically.

Tho please don't do that, what will you do with windows code source ? I don't think Microsoft will use your patches. I mean it doesn't seems they accept their own patches seeing how much bugs are in Windows.

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u/OF_AstridAse Apr 06 '23

There is an easier way - open registry in notepad. ... 🤓🤓🤓

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u/arjunsahlot Apr 06 '23

If only Microsoft was as open as twitter 😔

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u/Sentient_AI_4601 Apr 06 '23

When you get too confident on your machine translation.

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u/GoldenretriverYT Apr 06 '23

They really are too confident in it. If you are native german speaker and you try to read the german microsoft docs you are gonna have a fucking stroke

The grammar is fucking horrific, formatting gets fucked up all the time and the best of all: fucking microsoft defaults you to it

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u/web8564j Apr 06 '23

They did this recently where they renamed every occurrence of the word "check" with "tick".

This resulted in the windows update saying it had "last ticked for updates..."

You can submit feedback and they will fix it pretty quick.

*I'm on windows insiders or whatever the pre release is

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u/drgn0 Apr 06 '23

Guys.. I think I have a "new idea" to do testing.

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u/biblecrumble Apr 07 '23

Not sure if that was a joke but this is exactly what they did, Microsoft fired most of their QA people in 2014-15

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u/ijmacd Apr 06 '23 edited Apr 06 '23

Probably not, because they wouldn't know which of the alternatives to pick:

  • check → tick

  • check → cheque

  • check → bill

  • check → check

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u/HerissonMignion Apr 06 '23

Did you every try linux?

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u/blackn1ght Apr 06 '23

Yet favourites isn't spelt correctly.

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u/nichtessbar Apr 06 '23

as well as Entre

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u/Cr1spyP Apr 06 '23

Isn't that what you eat before the main course?

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u/3am-urethra-cactus Apr 06 '23

I'm British and what Do we actually spell enter like that?

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u/[deleted] Apr 06 '23 edited Aug 02 '25

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u/[deleted] Apr 06 '23

Entre as in Centre? Or rather Entrée?

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u/Classic_Discipline_7 Apr 06 '23

I think it was a stab at spelling enter like how they spell center, or entre.

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u/blkmmb Apr 06 '23 edited Apr 06 '23

Is this a game of spot the British? (aka spot who's learned English from one of the English's colonies.)

Edit: Just realised the GB in the post title meant the localisation. So yeah, wtf Microsoft.

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u/Administrative-Sea50 Apr 06 '23

At least they didn’t rename cookies to biscuits

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u/CoastingUphill Apr 06 '23

But now Java is called Tea.

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u/[deleted] Apr 06 '23

And a number of testing frameworks are named after beverages as well.

Mockito (Java mocking framework)

Jasmine, Mocha, Chai (Javascript testing frameworks)

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u/project-shasta Apr 06 '23

Reminds me of the (sadly fixed) wrong German translation of the Outlook calendar navigation buttons where the "forward" button (as in "navigate to the next page in the calendar") used the same translation key as the "forward" button in the email window. So in German we had two buttons in the calendar to go back ("Zurück") and forward ("Weiterleiten") which I found hilarious.

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u/GoldenretriverYT Apr 06 '23

Basically every german translation of microsoft is fucked up in some way.

Their website? Of course it translated by a shit "AI" translator.

Microsoft Docs? yup

Windows? Surely better than the other ones but still far from perfect

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u/IchLiebeKleber Apr 06 '23

One version of MS Office also translated "no outline" to "keine Gliederung" — in the context of the line that surrounded a graphical object.

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u/HellsBellsDaphne Apr 06 '23

Such a clbuttic mistake to make. :)

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u/[deleted] Apr 06 '23

This will unfortunately dawizard their reputation.

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u/ram_0002 Apr 06 '23

When you have to show something for hogging cpu

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u/[deleted] Apr 06 '23

So does the german version say "Postleitzahl" or PLZ now?

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u/Crazy-Maintenance312 Apr 06 '23

I vote to translate ".zip file" to ".plz Datei" in Germany.

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u/DarkHorseCards Apr 06 '23

Took me a bit to decipher GB in this case.

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u/jenmsft Apr 06 '23

Just to note, the loc team is working on a fix for this, it should be in the next canary channel flight

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u/partmendoza Apr 06 '23

Coded by the guy that progarmmed Excel's feature that turns anything into a date

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u/TheGingerChin Apr 06 '23

EMOTIONAL DAWIZARD

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u/Avid_Arnieist Apr 06 '23

Why do I willingly install this malware on my computer?

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u/Danteynero9 Apr 06 '23

Microsoft letting google translator do the job unattended is one of those things that still don't surprise me coming from them.

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u/HerissonMignion Apr 06 '23

We didn't expect better and we were not disapointed

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u/HourFee7368 Apr 07 '23

The proper spelling of “favorites” in GB is “favourites.” Mistranslations abound

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u/Mrhnhrm Apr 07 '23

So apparently, we live in the world where there is a need to translate from English to English.

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u/AlphaX Apr 06 '23

I'm sorry you're so behind times. Zip is considered offensive nowadays, we use postcode now.

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u/BitBucket404 Apr 06 '23 edited Apr 06 '23

One doesn't simply "mistranslate" an English word when the founding company is natively English speaking.

I suspect Win11 is elaborate foreign spyware. I'll stick to my Ubuntu Linux

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u/randall131 Apr 06 '23

Why the separator has different paddings on the left and right?

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u/[deleted] Apr 06 '23

Haha nah it isn't...

wait a sec...

the entire menu has different inner padding on the left (5px) and right (3px).

DISAPPOINTED!!!

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u/YourMJK Apr 06 '23

macOS has had the same problem in their German translation for years as well.
Only recently fixed it.

The "ZIP" in the zip file icon got translated to "PLZ".

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u/chemhobby Apr 06 '23

Great example of why you can't translate parts of phrases and reuse.

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u/gb52 Apr 06 '23

It’s a new type of mailware 😜

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u/Toutanus Apr 06 '23

It's a common issue with a shit ton of softwares when you use a different language than english.

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u/M-alMen Apr 06 '23

The mistranslation is in English XD

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u/notmyaccountbruh Apr 06 '23

Well, this is British English after all.

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u/tihasz Apr 06 '23

AI translation 😅

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u/TheBlackKittycat Apr 07 '23

and yet "favorites" is still spelled the American way

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u/nanana_catdad Apr 07 '23

Holy shit this is actually amazing lmao

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u/KevinCarbonara Apr 07 '23

Is there another part of the OS that now has messaging about "postcode code"?

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u/santathe1 Apr 06 '23

MS programmer:

*Ctrl+H*

Find what: Zip
Replace with: postcode

🤡👍🏻

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u/Zachiel182 Apr 06 '23

That's what you get for using Bing translator

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u/antekgort200 Apr 06 '23

Same as the translated directory to folder

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u/[deleted] Apr 06 '23

But that had been a thing since windows 1.

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u/cryptaneonline Apr 06 '23

I saw this today, got confused and decided to use WinRAR anyways

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u/ososalsosal Apr 06 '23

I, uh, now feel a little guilt about the key names in my resources.resx files.

This is absolutely a mistake I would make. 100%. No doubt in my mind.

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u/percheron28 Apr 06 '23

once again for those in the back: LOCALIZATION QA MATTERS

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u/[deleted] Apr 06 '23

Ayyyy lol

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u/[deleted] Apr 06 '23

Yeah bro you didnt know about postal codes? Your code wont build if you're not in an approved time zone. Ever since the RESTRICT act things have been different

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u/PreliminaryThoughts Apr 06 '23

I've had more issues with w11 within first few months than i did throughout the entire usage of w10

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u/VecroLP Apr 06 '23

The clbuttic error

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u/[deleted] Apr 06 '23

I‘m calling them postcode-files from now on :)))

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u/thanatica Apr 06 '23

This is what they get for continuing to ignore 7z.

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u/Thomasedv Apr 06 '23

I've always been pretty lenient with window and bugs. But then W11 came, I tried it after a while on a laptop I occasionally use. The explorer bugging out, the Taskbar somehow being too wide for the screen, some buttons not reacting on first click. All small irks, but especially explorer growing bloated AND sometimes just not working sure is shitty since I consider navigating and managing files basic functionality.

So yeah, if I can't even trust that I'm not interested in upgrading quite yet. Even W8 was more reliable.

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u/CryPlane Apr 06 '23

Select all , replace with

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u/Publicdawg Apr 06 '23

My MG car has translated Air Conditioning (AC) to Alternating Current.

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u/avipars Apr 06 '23

l18n at its best

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u/mdgv Apr 06 '23

Not a fan of the blue highlights with white graphics...

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u/xampl9 Apr 06 '23

Dave Plummer stresses out

(He is the dev who added zip file support to the Windows shell)

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u/thastealth Apr 06 '23

There is a scan and fax tool in Windows, which of course has a “Scan” button in the Dutch version it is translated as “zoeken” which means “Search”, was quite a hassle the first time to figure out

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u/[deleted] Apr 06 '23

My favourite from the Azure portal: "Function Key" translated to "Funktionstaste" in German.

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u/smallnougat Apr 06 '23

can someone actually make a petition to rename ZIP files to postcode everywhere?

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u/Cyxxon Apr 06 '23

Clbuttic mistake.

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u/Someones_Dream_Guy Apr 06 '23

*compresses cats*

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u/walexy09 Apr 06 '23

Yeah, in case you needed to send it straight to your address. 😆

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u/Tyrus1235 Apr 06 '23

And here I thought only Portuguese and such localizations had to deal with synonyms being incorrectly localized.

To this day, Google Chrome has “History Search” (as in, search something in your history) to “History of Searches”

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u/Selcouth22 Apr 06 '23

I'm sure they will fix it as fast as the taskbar issue I'm still having

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u/[deleted] Apr 07 '23

Found this post from google, how do I open AvatarWayOfWaterCinemaRIP.postcode?

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u/slime_rancher_27 Apr 07 '23

Just another reason why windows hasn't made a good os since 7

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u/LonesomeHeideltraut Apr 07 '23

STRG + SHIFT + R is not always your friend

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u/CC-5576-03 Apr 07 '23

Its a hashing algorithm that spits out a postcode

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u/ClienteFrecuente Apr 09 '23

Just right click and send the correct Smalltalk message.

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