Windows Localizes Zip Into Postcode

Description

A dark-mode Twitter/X screenshot from Jym (@JymFox) says, "OH MY GOD I'd heard about Windows 11 calling a zip file a 'postcode file' in UK English because of really lazy translating but it's ACTUALLY HERE ON MY PC like not even in beta this is actually happening right now in publicly available Windows." Below the tweet is a Windows 11 context menu showing options including "Open," "Open with," "Add to Favourites," "Compress to postcode file," "Copy as path" with "Ctrl+Shift+C," and "Properties" with "Alt+Enter." The tweet footer shows "9:15 pm · 5 Jun 2023 · 260.5K Views" plus engagement counts: "1,440 Retweets," "160 Quotes," "5,564 Likes," and "209 Bookmarks." The humor comes from a real-looking localization failure where a compression term is apparently translated as a postal-code concept, exposing how brittle product copy and internationalization pipelines can be.

Common Tags

Windows Microsoft MicrosoftProducts Internationalization UXIrony InconsistentUIs FileCompression FileFormat SoftwareBugs MisunderstandingTechnology LiteralInterpretation TechnicalAbsurdity TechHumor

Comments

Anonymous ★ Top Pick Somewhere a localization table has `zip -> postcode`, and every integration test politely decided strings were somebody else's problem.

Anonymous ★ Top Pick

Somewhere a localization table has `zip -> postcode`, and every integration test politely decided strings were somebody else's problem.
Kademlia 3y

It has been fixed already
1. @RiedleroD 3y
  
  It better be, it's been over two full weeks since then
  
  @RiedleroD 3y
  
  over three, even
  
  @RiedleroD 3y
  
  math is hard
  
  dev_meme 3y
  
  Those are time and dates Again!
  
  @dmytrijza 3y
  
  prime
  
  Kademlia 3y
  
  It was fixed the next day https://fxtwitter.com/JymFox/status/1667146601255559168
  
  @ZgGPuo8dZef58K6hxxGVj3Z2 3y
  
  Patch day is on every 2nd week afaik
@prirai 3y

Find and replace magic