Some normal words are censored or go blank in chat, signs, books, and when renaming.

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Also affects text chat according to other reports

The very text formatting codes can affect this as well. Even changing the order that text formatting is performed may trigger censorship for no apparent reason. The code operating that functionality has clearly been broken for a LONG time now.

Additionally, it would seem the intuitive approach would be allow realm owners to specify that a realm is 18+ and have XBL deny connections based on account profile setup, denying to child accounts.

There is really no reason for censorship on realms that are clearly adult participation only. Who are Mojang and XBL trying to protect? Use the technology that exists already for account holders.

Is this only happening on a Realm?

According to MCPE-52805, yes

I'm on Bedrock PS4 1.14.41 and formatting codes don't work at all for me. I was going to make a new issue but I figured this one was relevant enough.

The best solution might actually be to add an option to disable censorship altogether on Realms. The profanity filter is clearly broken. I tested this and it is ONLY happening on Realms, which makes sense. Try typing Lilly onto a sign and watch it disappear or type a multiline sign with Lily of the Valley as the top line and watch Lily become ####.

Also typing "Red Tulip Red Dye" onto a sign makes it blank.

I tested signs on a Realm in 1.14.60 using Xbox One. The following names, when entered on a sign showed very briefly on the sign and then it turned blank. Each name was entered separately on a new sign:

David Samuel Michael Brandon Daniel Donald Oliver

These names and other words all worked on a sign, again each on a separate sign:

Eliza Elizabeth Mike Dan Mat Matthew William Mojira North South East West

The same names used on a downloaded local copy of the same world all work perfectly.

Xbox realms user here..

"Forest" is another one that blanks the sign out.

Another I cant say is "Gulag" but that one is more understandable I guess.

It seems like this may be blocking words if they contain even part of a swear word which is a bad move given how prefixes/suffixes are commonly shared between words in English.

I would also like to be able to turn off the language filter client-side. But even in a clean server words like "Forest" "West" and common first names are vital to gameplay and shouldnt be blocked. As mentioned above it effects your ability to mark cardinal directions, I cant make a sign to mark my forest biome warp because I cant say "Forest"

I play on Windows 10 on realms with someone who plays on Xbox. I tried to write "G's" (Like "G's house") on a sign and it was censored with hashtags. Not sure why.

Normal dutch words: "dik", "hoor", "moet", "kunt" and many more. Put any of those words on a sign, in chat or in a book and it will get censored. Sometimes we can't even read each other sentences. Its obvious those words get censored in English but the young playerbase around the globe does not speak English that well. It would be rather weird to prevent every player from speaking in their own language just to stop US / English kids from swearing.  

I wrote "Hello, it got censored, but that does not always happen.

For me, using the words "scarlet", "midnight", and "noob" caused the sign to turn blank

-Toque de seda (Silk touch) -Canalizacion (Channeling) -koke (my dog ​​name) caused the sign to turn blank 

'transfer ee' is blocked. 'transfer ae' is not blocked. 'transsss ae is blocked' I have no clue what's going on here. we're just trying to write 'transfer'

'transfer ee' and then any number of 'e's LESS than 31 results in a blank sign. anymore results in 'transfer' being censored as '######### eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee'

looks like it might be any 31 letter long string?

Bodega is censored. 

I'm on Realms (windows 10 bedrock) and most signs don't work - sometimes it accepts a word or two, other times, nothing at all.

My Last name of Ruthenta is censored. As well as the word "gay" (which censorship of is actually more harmful to LGBTQ)

Sometimes the words "big", "large", and "huge" are also censored. It really causes issues sometimes,

On 1.16.100 I'm still having A LOT of words being censored or making the text disappear on signs... This bug is so annoying I can't use signs on Realms because of this...

I regularly type [ Up >, which sometimes get blanked out (censored). I seem to workaround this by typing a few letters after, like [ Up >jdsoia, then removing those letters, and the text is not censored anymore (at least temporarily).

Hoe is censored (on Realms Plus), singular or plural, uppercase or lowercase.  I understand that it can be used inappropriately, but it is the name of an item in the game, and it is useful functionality to be able to put up a sign that says "Iron Hoes" or similar.

This is still an issue on bedrock 1.16.201. There are some words that are censored like #### and other words make all the text on the sign go blank

On my realm, I just tried to rename an item to say §b1 Diamond§r/Quarter Stack, and the whole thing turned into hashtags (and by whole thing I mean all the way up to the 35 character limit), despite the fact that I had another item renamed just before it that didn't get censored because the "Half Stack" part of it had green text. I also had a sign a few months ago where the word "you" got censored, but this could be related to @Zemnmez's observation where strings of certain lengths can cause the first word to be censored. 

I got 15 command blocks that had big commands go completely "#####". They were all /tp commands with a lot of syntaxes. Because of this I just lost a lot of work.... This HAS to be fixed as soon as possible...

Another painful use case: renaming maps with an anvil - A1..E5 to keep them organized - and it turns out "C5" and "D1" are censored. Oof. RIP my anvil and my xp.

As mentioned above, Hoe is censored, which makes signage for actual in-game hoes difficult. Additionally, a sign reading "Axe ST\nSword U2" (for my villager that trades silk touch axes and unbreaking 2 swords), just gets wiped to a blank sign. I can't tell what the particular issue is there - "Axe ST", "Sword U2", and "Axe ST\nSword" are all perfectly acceptable.

Perfectly normal name of my friend [Janusz|https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janusz] is replaced with ##### in-game when we use it on i.e. name tag. (BTW. Jeb is a curse word in my language 😉 maybe you should censor it?)

How has this bug been open for 2 years? This is quite detrimental to the gameplay experience as 1 in 10 signs I place have all the text disappear completely!

Noticed that this happens most often with names and with words that might be considered offensive if they were taken out of context to the point that it's ridiculous.

This might help, but i'm guessing not as mojang doesn't seem to see this issue.

The Russian word 'Сосна' is incorrectly censored in Realms! 'Сосна' is a spruce tree! No 'Suck'. Pine is used a lot in the game.
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The words 'Сос' is censored.
Buy the words 'Сосешь' and 'Пососешь' are not censored - is 'Suck'.
Please make so possible write the word 'Сосна' and 'Сосны'
Thanks!

In order to create signage viewable from a further distance, I found the following elsewhere online:

Attempting to enter various numbers of # symbols causes the sign to become blank (seemingly more than two in a row, but there seems to be some inconsistency in that).

i found this issue while making a map wall in realms on 1.17, in which "K 14" and many other alphanumerical grid names were censored, it's literally the letter K and a 2 digit number, and i don't see any way that's a swear in any language, or any of the others. alphanumerical map walls are now impossible to make unless you use my bypass method: download the world, rename your items, signs, whatever, get it all done, then re-upload the world to your realm (using the replace world function) and then enjoy. that's the only method i ever found to work. the best fix i suggest: allow us to toggle off the swear filter if we're the owner, so the owner of the realm and/or world can toggle it off for the entire server, or toggle it off client-side, and only people who have it turned off there will see chats with swear unfiltered. just an idea. either way this needs to be fixed, especially as this bug is over 2 whole years old. it's getting ridiculous.

The problem here is not simply censoring (the profanity filter) being applied when it shouldn't be. The reports linked under "relates to", and some of the comments here, show that problems occur with seemingly random character combinations and even specific methods of text entry. Therefore, in many cases, it is likely not the profanity filter causing the problem but instead something in the string parsing (i.e. how string data is read on the server vs. the client) or memory handling related to strings. Along those lines, a blank sign is probably more an indication of data corruption, because censored signs normally display little x's.

@GoldenHelmet well in that case, can you forward this to someone on the dev team to check that it works right in the future? in my case it changes text to "#" so "K 13" becomes "####", even removing the space, changing capitalization doesn't stop it from changing it to "#" in place of each character, so my problem is indeed the swear filter, like i tried renaming another item some 4 letter artillery (4 letter profanity) and it changed it to "#" for each character as well, so in my case it's definitely the swear filter, perhaps split this into 2 bug reports, one regarding data corruption (blank signs, books, etc that aren't appearing), and one regarding incorrect profanity filter recognition (changing things like my "K 13" renamed map to "####" even though it's not a swear), because it seems that there is a lot of instances of each, either way, this bug has been open for over 2 years, and it's still not fixed. honestly if it doesn't get fixed soon i'm gonna boycott realms, stop paying for it, because i don't want to have to download a world, rename it in offline play, then re-upload it and replace the one on the realm every time i want to rename a map of mine. again, this really needs a fix.

other note of my 2 cents for the devs: give us an option to disable the profanity filter for our realms and worlds, and for realms, have it hidden behind another command, for example: "/gamerule showhiddencommands true" needs to be done to enable things like disabling the profanity filter, which could be "/gamerule dochatfiltering false", this way it will be a bit difficult to do, especially if you remove the "/gamerule showhiddencommands" from the command auto complete list (like where if you type "/gamerule show" it'll say "/gamerule showcoordinates" as a possible command), because firstly: most kids who are too young to see swears won't know how to use commands to begin with, secondly, they almost always use the auto-complete list for 99% of commands, at least the ones i've met, and then it's also gatekept behind another command, so not only is it hidden behind another command, but that command is also hidden, so it'll be really hard to do so, and the only place this will be logged is on a patch notes sub page that is age-gated to an appropriate age, something, just allow us to disable the profanity filter, also, allow a secondary option to filter chat for every member, so signs and item names won't be censored, but chat will be for that user, as a client side option. just some way to disable it, it doesn't have to be this complex, but it's just a thought.

Add "Winery" to the incomprehensible list of censored words.  Vineyard, however, is perfectly functional, under whatever nonsensical rules govern this function.

I have a bug:

When I type Slovakian "Up", it censores it, and thinks, I typed non-good word. Even, when I have Slovakian Language in Minecraft. (sorry for my English, I am Slovak)

Replaces the word "por" with ### (Pt_BR). Maybe it confuses with "porn".

Text disappearing or not saving is a new bug, unrelated to the censoring one. Please refer to MCPE-146229, REALMS-9191, REALMS-9223 and REALMS-9231.

Similar what someone else reported: "Hore" (see [dict.cc | hore | English-Slovak Dictionary|https://ensk.dict.cc/?s=hore]) gets censored. Please don't censor absolutely normal words, there's so many languages out there with words spelled similarly to some English ones. Don't assume that everybody wants to use English swear words all the time (and spell it terribly!)

The word Bodega is censored for no reason.

I have to figure out how to explain to my young nieces why they can't name their tools "[Their Firstname]'s Hoe"

When typing "Raid Farm" it changes it to "Raid##a##"

Very strange behavior. Hard to reliably use signs or books for anything.

Typing Night in an anvil triggers the profanity filter. i believe the filter is set to anything with the 3 letters "nig", which blocks out many words. should be "n i (double g)" to be more specific to that actual word 

The word "blade" wont work in an anvil when renaming any item (but it's used a lot in sword names)

kind of dumb on a multiplayer server full of adults to force us to use buggy censorship. please let us turn this off in the options.

Regarding the issue with regular words:

The devs need to whitelist all words that are not swears.

And whatever censored the Cyrillic equivalent of sos (s is c in Cyrillic) needs to be fixed.

The name of a country (Japan) and so as the name of their language (Japanese) is affected too.

I found this by looking through the whitelist. I think that this is caused by the anvil showing the popup and undoing the change that caused it to match a word on a file called "profanity_filter.wlist". This could be fixed by displaying the popup and refusing to rename the item when the person tries to take the item out of the anvil rather than as soon as a word on the whitelist is detected in the anvil field. To deal with the words "Night" and "Japan" being banned accidentally, they could add another whitelist.

You need to add Android to affected list

Unable to name my sword night Justice

Upon further investigation, there is a separate bug, where anvils over-eagerly triggers the profanity filter when the start of a word is blocked, even in single player (note that "night" causes the issue, "glass" does not). The way to get around this is to misspell the word then using arrow keys to fix it. This bug is being marked incorrectly as a duplicate to this.

Affects 1.19 (Bedrock)

It is fixed. At least with naming stuff on the Anvil

I can't reproduce the other obscure censors on a singleplayer world. 

The anvil one seemed to have been fixed in 1.19.10.

For maps, try things like 1-1, then 1-2, 1-3, and so on.

Hi, I understand this issue just got resolved but I just got done writing a book that took a while to write only to notice that:

"11:30 AM: Dr. Dill" was replaced with "#####3###M###r. Dill". Even if there was something in that phrase that represents something scary or bad or something, I had zero intentions on it having any relevance to anything bad or any sort of slur. I was just trying to write a book about people's haircuts being scheduled.

This issue is not resolved. The book and sign text being censored is still a huge issue. Extremely disappointed that this was marked as resolved and not actually tested. Took me 2 minutes to replicate the invalid censorship happening on the book screenshot "bad censor.bmp" - I have posted the results in the 2 new screenshots. When I type the text in "bad censor before closing book", and close the book, then the text changes to what is shown in "bad censor 2".

Reopened based on multiple reports that this is still occurring.

Affects 1.19.10

Even non-words are being censored, trying

-2000, 1000

is being censored 

On my friends realm there is a sign with the word "this" which turned into ####

Apparently I can’t name my elytra “Popeyes”, signs go blank, even with one letter, and unedited items put through an anvil always end up named ######

Shulker boxes with color profiles are also changing to hashtags

combining books alone changes the name to hashtags as well, even if the book is not renamed. 

I've been hit with this bug and know someone else who has.  What's strange is this appears to affect players based on Microsoft account rather than by platform.  I play on both Nintendo Switch and Windows 10 as well as on multiple realms, both where I'm a member as well as one where I'm the owner, and no matter which platform or realm I used, signs would go blank, anvils would rename everything to ########### even if I didn't try to rename (also charging me the rename cost which was wasting levels), and chat would not show up for other players (I normally call up the few people I play with, so they verified over the phone they could not see my messages).

One person I know who isn't affected also plays on Nintendo Switch while one that is plays from XBox and has access to a Nintendo Switch where she also experiences the same, while her daughter who plays on that same Nintendo Switch does not have the bug.

Thankfully, I've found something that actually seems to fix this (short term?):  [How to fix your shadow mute (with proof) | Minecraft Bedrock Tutorial - YouTube|https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqLHpBLu5oE]

The steps in the video are weird and seemingly completely unrelated, but I took a shot and did this on my own realm while I had loaded up a test map.  Sometime after chatting the / and getting back "Cheats are not enabled on this world", I placed a sign and was able to keep the message on it.  I hopped over to my friend's realm and signs and chat now suddenly worked there, too, without repeating the steps.

Now, if we don't go down the conspiracy route of "we've been shadowbanned", my guess is that something somewhere that handles player-entered text gets into a state, similar to like in a command line application where you forget to terminate a string literal and it just doesn't process any commands until you terminate said string literal.  I'd further hazard a guess that something about one of the symbols entered from the video (or perhaps some sequence of them) somehow fixes that state so that future messages are processed normally.

i have a friend whose name is "nacigo" and his name is apparently getting censored cause there's "cig" in his name?

Affects 1.19.22

Latin Language is also being censored, turns Romanus into "xxxxxxx"

Same on most of Swiss German words. It needs to be toggle-able now!

Also censors different sequences of words and letters in a book with no particular meaning, like:
{{}}

SS' X' ' '

Censored the whole line (Note it doesn't censor if there is just SS or X, regardless of the number of apostrophes and spaces)

B - Solid block
F - Fence
L - Slab

{{}}

Censored from block up to L

I made a book and quill with the material i need for a particular farm

For items i need more then 64 i stated that i needed a number of stacks + few items, to abbreviate Stack I used "P" so in my book i have for example "84 Pistão (1P+20)" and this works fine, but in the next line i also have "82 redstone (1P+18)" and for some reason the "(1P+18)" is replaced with hashes

more testing and realized it censors the "+18".... 

Writing "AHHHH!!" yields the text "###########".

Issue Seen

I am seeing Text being blanked - not ##'ed out.

In my basement i have a barrel wall with enchanted books.

Expected Behaviour:

Added Text "Blast Protection IV" to a sign and attach to wall next to a barrel.

Relog and return to wall and check sign still has text displayed.

Observed Behaviour:

On relog and return to area the sign is found to be blanked.

I have reproduced this twice thus far.

Note: I actually had a another "Blast Protection IV" sign (which was added before and glow inked). This sign remains fine - not blanked or ##'ed

Sadly still around on 1.19.51, and I cant expect it to go away soon. Tried to give directions to the highway I'm about to build for realisim, but the sign had other plans.

jeb_ sheep are now censored (reported in MCPE-170649, and I can also confirm).
Looks like the suggestion posted in an earlier comment was approved.

Mojang should just make the censorship optional - It would solve the incorrect censorship, and at the end of the day me and my friends want to hang out and have fun.

If this is still occuring please attach a video showing this issue, with steps on how to reproduce.

There’s a bunch of random and obscure word combinations but here’s one that I found:

To reproduce, rename any item in an anvil to ‘§4Exit Game‘. This will guarantee the item to be named ’###########’ instead. The color code seems to be the problem in this scenario. This also happens with text in Book and Quills and Signs.

Still happening in 1.20.62 on Realms. Changed "fletching table" to "######### table". Ridiculous

-4, 0

censors to #####

Can confirm. Sometimes normal words I type to my friend while playing realms get censored. They're normal words, and we have to bypass the censor via Steam chat. 

Can confirm for Bedrock v1.20.71. German language, apparently the words "innerer Ring" trigger that these characters and some words before are replaced with "#####". LOL!

"KKK" gets censored, which is sad because those are my initials... 😞

Still an issue in 1.21.2

In my case, it's only the odd numbered pages going blank. The even numbered ones have no issues from what I've seen.

Addresses on signs and in chat also get censored. Same with the word "smokers". Makes it difficult to talk about cooking food or giving houses in a city addresses.

Highway and it's abbreviation, Hwy are both being censored.  Makes naming roads very hard.

Whoever fixed Realms-9191 needs to be assigned to this issue as they know everything about these types of issues and how to fix them.

Guess I'll have to continue with my trick of swapping out the letters with numbers and symbols until I get something that won't turn to a bunch of #s

Numbers also get censored sometimes which makes it hard to mark coordinates on signs

Issue still exists on 1.21.44

This one may be the result of reusing a sign with NBT Data from the Overworld and editing it in the Nether 

I’m currently transcribing the Bible, of all things to censor, and I’m getting blank words for “wine” and “virgin’s” which I understand can be used unfamily friendly but I think there is a serious case for adding a toggle for censorship.  If we’re so worried about kids seeing inappropriate material I think it would be better to add a parent lock to the toggle rather than no toggle at all.  This is a dystopian level of censorship as it is.

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