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Codex Desktop: Chinese UI still shows English labels in File menu

Open 💬 3 comments Opened Jun 24, 2026 by lijiale19910828-dot
💡 Likely answer: A maintainer (github-actions[bot], contributor) responded on this thread — see the highlighted reply below.

What happened?

Codex Desktop is set to Chinese (zh-CN), and most of the UI is shown in Chinese. However, the native File menu still shows several submenu items in English:

  • New Window
  • New Chat
  • Quick Chat
  • Open Folder...
  • Close
  • Settings...
  • Log Out
  • Exit

The top-level native menu labels are localized, for example 文件 / 编辑 / 视图 / 帮助, so the app language setting appears to be applied.

Environment

  • OS: Windows
  • Codex Desktop version: 26.616.10790.0
  • UI language preference: zh-CN, zh

Investigation

The bundled native-menu-locales/zh-CN.json appears to be missing translations for command menu title keys such as:

  • codex.commandMenuTitle.newWindow
  • codex.commandMenuTitle.newThread
  • codex.commandMenuTitle.quickChat
  • codex.commandMenuTitle.openFolder
  • codex.commandMenuTitle.settings

As a result, these menu items appear to fall back to English.

Expected behavior

When Codex Desktop is set to Chinese, all native menu items should be localized into Chinese.

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3 Comments

github-actions[bot] contributor · 2 months ago

Potential duplicates detected. Please review them and close your issue if it is a duplicate.

  • #28543

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xiangyu5916 · 1 month ago

Still reproducible on Windows Codex Desktop 26.623.19656.0.

Environment:

  • App: OpenAI Codex Windows desktop app, Microsoft Store/MSIX
  • Version: 26.623.19656.0
  • Package: OpenAI.Codex_26.623.19656.0_x64__2p2nqsd0c76g0
  • Culture: zh-CN / Chinese (Simplified, PRC)
  • UI culture reported by Windows: en-US / English (United States)

Observed:

  • Top-level native menu labels are localized: 文件 / 编辑 / 视图 / 帮助
  • Dropdown items still fall back to English, including New Window, New Chat, Quick Chat, Open Folder..., Settings..., Toggle Sidebar, Toggle Bottom Panel, Keyboard Shortcuts, Send Feedback, etc.

Local investigation:

  • The app bundle includes native-menu-locales/zh-CN.json.
  • In this build, zh-CN.json contains 0 keys matching codex.commandMenuTitle.*.
  • The app bundle still contains fallback menu title keys such as codex.commandMenuTitle.newWindow, codex.commandMenuTitle.newThread, codex.commandMenuTitle.quickChat, codex.commandMenuTitle.openFolder, codex.commandMenuTitle.toggleSidebar, and codex.commandMenuTitle.showKeyboardShortcuts.

This looks like the same missing native menu translation coverage, still present in 26.623.19656.0.

codex-menu-localization-feedback.zip

SayDing · 1 month ago

Still reproducible on Windows Codex Desktop 26.715.4045.0.

Environment:

  • App: OpenAI Codex Windows desktop app, Microsoft Store/MSIX
  • Version: 26.715.4045.0
  • Package: OpenAI.Codex_26.715.4045.0_x64__2p2nqsd0c76g0
  • OS: Windows 10.0.26200
  • Current culture: zh-CN
  • Current UI culture: zh-CN
  • System locale: zh-CN
  • Microsoft Store reports no newer version available

Observed:

  • Top-level native menu labels are localized: 文件 / 编辑 / 视图 / 帮助
  • Dropdown items remain in English across all four menus
  • Examples include New Window, New Chat, Open Folder..., Undo, Copy, Paste, Toggle Sidebar, Open Terminal, Documentation, Troubleshooting, and Send Feedback

Local investigation:

  • The app bundle contains native-menu-locales/zh-CN.json
  • In 26.715.4045.0, that file still contains no codex.commandMenuTitle.* translation keys
  • This causes the native submenu command labels to fall back to English

Expected:

  • All native menu dropdown items should use Simplified Chinese when the app and Windows locale are zh-CN.