Hi team,
I’m reporting a localization bug in the Shopify Admin UI when the admin language is set to Japanese (日本語).
Summary
On detail pages that render app block extensions (e.g. the customer details page), each block card has a built-in overflow menu (the “⌄” next to the card title). In Japanese, the “Reorder” action — which lets the merchant rearrange/reorder the cards on the page — is translated as 「再注文」.
The problem: 「再注文」 means “place an order again / re-purchase” in Japanese, not “rearrange items”. For a control that reorders cards, this is misleading and confusing to merchants, since it reads like an e-commerce “buy again” action.
Steps to reproduce
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Set the Admin interface language to Japanese (日本語).
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Open a page that shows app block extension cards (e.g. a customer details page with an admin block extension).
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Click the “⌄” menu on a block card.
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The menu shows: 「アプリを開く」 (Open app) and 「再注文」 (the Reorder action), with an up/down (sort) icon.
Expected
The action should be translated with a phrase meaning “rearrange / reorder layout”, for example:
「並び替え」
Actual
It is translated as 「再注文」 (= re-purchase / order again), which implies a commerce action rather than rearranging cards.
Environment
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Surface: Shopify Admin (web)
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Locale: Japanese (日本語)
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Context: app block extension card menu (
admin.*.block.rendertargets)
This appears to be a platform-side string, not something app developers can override from the extension, so I’d appreciate it if the Japanese translation could be corrected.
Thanks!
thanks for flagging and for sharing this clear context.
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