Foreign language sent in email

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Foreign language sent in email

Hi

Today I took photos for my father on my iPhone and emailed them to him. The email he received had a notification saying ‘Slovenian language detected. Do you want to translate message?’

I only attached the photos in the email. I have used AVG and zone alarm to scan my phone and there doesn’t seem to be anything detected (I was worried this might be an indication of a virus). I have looked through my language settings which are all sent to English (UK).

Has anyone experienced this before, or is anyone able to give me some advice as to what this might be?

Thanks in advance!

iPhone 6, iOS 12

Posted on Jul 10, 2020 2:50 PM

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Answer 1

IzzyM96 Author

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Jul 11, 2020 12:53 AM in response to Tom Gewecke

Hi Tom

I will check with him. I am just curious as to why it would show foreign language in the email, when I only attached a photo? But it is comforting that you don’t think it is a virus.

Thanks for your help

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Tom Gewecke

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Jul 11, 2020 2:15 AM in response to IzzyM96

IzzyM96 wrote:

Just to add, he opened the email on his laptop, not his phone?

What kind of laptop is that? Is he using webmail? There's no easy way to know why some translation app or browser extension might think a particular message might need translatiion.

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IzzyM96 Author

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Jul 11, 2020 2:22 AM in response to Tom Gewecke

It’s a Lenovo laptop, he is using em client with his btopenworld account. When he clicked to translate no text appeared. He then opened it using ms outlook and no translation message appears.

Seems it might be the em client then?

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