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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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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Is "Yamada" equivalent to "Joe"? It seems like a really common pick for Generic Name Insert.
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Taro and Hanako are the office Jane and John Doe choices for ~everything; for last names I tended to see a lot of Tanaka, Yamada, and
$NAME_OF_AUTHORING_COMPANY in my salaryman years.
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Similar: “let’s be customer-centric and auto-adjust the interface language to the native language of the user’s location” (regardless of his/her profile’s languages preferences). A real nuisance for international travelers and/or VPN users
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You forgot one thing. Japanese decision is always collegial decision. (And some Japanese idiots thinking that there is no ヴ letter in Kana exist
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Yeah. Because using the http header would be too easy right?
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