1.0.6: three languages Google Play does not translate

28 August 2026:

Google Play translates uploaded apps itself, afresh for every bundle. Vault Pure
ships German and English, and Play attaches 49 more languages without a single
line for them sitting in the source folder.

Measured rather than assumed: each of the 49 generated language packs was searched
for "AES-256", a word no library brings along. All 49 carry our own strings.

Three languages Play does not offer

Traditional Chinese, Filipino and Malay are on Google's list of excluded
languages. For those, translating is our job or nobody's.

So it was done by hand: 367 strings and four plurals each, translated from the
English original rather than converted from the Simplified Chinese. That
difference is not cosmetic. 計算機 is a pocket calculator in Taiwan and a computer
on the mainland. Swapping characters instead of translating writes mainland
vocabulary in traditional script.

What turned up along the way

The store listing was Traditional Chinese while the app spoke only Simplified.
Since Android 7 the one does not match the other: anyone reading the store page in
Taipei and then installing the app most likely saw English. Both versions exist
today, each with its own screenshots in the language of the page above them.

Keeping it that way

A test fails the build when a shipped language is missing a string, when it
carries one the original has dropped, or when a placeholder does not survive
translation. That last one is the dangerous case: turning %1$d into %1$s
crashes exactly when the text appears, in that one language, on a device nobody
here owns. The test was checked by breaking a string on purpose.

Where to go next

See it on Google Play
or read the info page. The version before this was
1.0.6 and the way back from Google Drive.