Blog post #17:

Bold Text, Korean, and translation. A little bug on X.

- Victor Guyard

X has a bold-text feature. It is nice, helps long posts emphasize focus. However, the bolded is not correctly distributed in the translation.

Let us look at some examples.

Tweet 1: “예산을 늘리는 것…” means “Increasing the budget…” alas this is not bolded.

X post

Tweet 2: Look at the bullet points.

X post

If we count the number of characters bolded, we can infer that after the translation is retrieved, X/twitter gets the position of the previously bolded characters, and applies it directly to the new text. However, this does not work for Korean.

Maybe X can send the bolded-only sections in a second request, to see what their translations are and then match those to the complete tweet.

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