A Japanese bank has injected Javascript into their UI which is, apparently, grabbing my name from the UI, noticing that it has alphabetical characters in it, and then translating the UI on the fly (after a flash of Japanese text) into English, not particularly well either.
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"We should use their language preference from the backend." "The backend has no concept of a language preference. It was built when we didn't... really... bank foreigners. "OK so what are our options?" "Well their names aren't Japanese right, so a regexp..." "GENIUS, Yamada-kun!"
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And if I were at that meeting because *cough* a long time ago I may have been at a very similar meeting. "Plausibly some foreigners might be able to read banking Japanese." "Haha what?" "I mean some might even be engineers at this company." "But you can read English right."
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"Plausibly some foreigners might strongly prefer Japanese to English." "That is some extreme geekiness." "I was thinking more along the lines of the substantial user population who are Brazilian of Japanese descent. Portuguese yes, Japanese probably, English reasonably unlikely."
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Oh joy the English injection is actually via cross-site scripting to a translation vendor because what better page to embed external Javascript on to rewrite page content than the one which can authorize instant domestic account balance transfers.
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