I vaguely remember reading about a fuckup where the translation department of a company (I believe it was Microsoft) accidentally translated the entire programm

I vaguely remember reading about a fuckup where the translation department of a company (I believe it was Microsoft) accidentally translated the entire programming language (I believe it was PostScript) into German. Of course you were no longer able to print using the german version of PostScript. Does anyone else know what I'm referring to? It was probably in the late 90s.