Profanities and racial comments discovered in polaris

[Simon Divito]

Has anyone else noticed on their HTC one, files being created by Google translate, the files are txt and contain some pretty hardcore profanities and racial remarks, I was astonished this could happen! I only used it for some basic French translation to test the programme.I have Since deleted Google translate and the files have gone, I couldn't remove them by clearing cache or data from either app, and they couldn't be found with x plore..

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[jfs101]

Re: Polaris office

And the Polaris Office thread title has what to do with it...?

 

[Simon Divito]

Re: Polaris office

Fair comment albeit I can't edit the title, however it doesn't deride from the issue at hand.

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[uh60james]

Re: Polaris office

Where would one look for such files?

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[Simon Divito]

Re: Polaris office

They were just in the Polaris app along with my excel files I have saved you certainly didn't have to look for them.

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[anon(21022)]

Gotta say, I didn't believe the op, but I checked and sure enough there are some files containing various words, in

/storage/emulated/0/Android/data/com.google.apps.translate/files/ol/v3r1/c_p

They're not all profanities, and I do recognize some, but only some, of the words that I did try to translate. The rest seem to be pre cached translations of some sorts?

Interesting discovery..

 

[uh60james]

Words people commonly try to translate possibly. It's good to know how to cuss in other languages.

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[mkhall]

This is indeed odd. I found all manner of things, including non-American names, a series of "[Random Mideast Nation] defeats Israel" strings, and a few others weird bits. I wonder how they end up here?

 

[Adamsberg]

Web browser's Google translation of web pages might use this on the phone together with the Google Translate app on the phone ... but just a guess. Thick fingers on small phone's web browser do a lot of things unintentionally

 

[Simon Divito]

At least I know I wasn't imagining it! Very strange, definitely not fat finger syndrome... Phones only a week old I certainly haven't been searching for anything along the lines of boobs massage or children die, it's totally unacceptable this can happen.

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[mkhall]

Yeah, it's not fat-finger syndrome this time. It looks more like something got left in a build before its was rolled into distribution. Weird, though, no matter what.