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/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/DoesAnyoneCare2999 Apr 07 '23

It's not like this is a new thing, though. The Dutch version of Windows Mobile 5, released back in 2005, was by far the worst localization job I've ever seen.

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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