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Reminds me of the time I used my French bank card in a ticket machine in the UK. The machine detected it was a French card and switched the interface to French (fine). It then asked me to "entrez votre broche" as a prompt for my PIN.

In the context of electronics "pin" (as in on a component) translates to French as "broche" but it makes no sense for a pincode!

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I saw a kiosk in the UK which cycled through languages inviting you to interact with a "t touch screen to start!"

The Swedish translation said "The touchscreen that starts!"

I was initially confused and thought why you would use pincode at ATM, then realized you meant the card's PIN.

In India pincode refers to zipcode or postalcode. the pin in pincode means Postal Index Number.

It would be interesting to know if similar bug exists for the locale en_IN.

Many gas stations in the US still ask for the zip/postal code instead of the actual card PIN code :|

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