[Windows app] German locale: new-task composer placeholder regressed to English "do anything"

Open 💬 1 comment Opened Aug 5, 2026 by claell

What version of the Codex App are you using (From "About Codex" dialog)?

26.730.8199.0

What subscription do you have?

Education

What platform is your computer?

Microsoft Windows NT 10.0.26200.0 x64

What issue are you seeing?

With the Codex Desktop interface localized in German, the empty text input for a new task displays the English placeholder do anything.

The surrounding app interface remains in German, so the app is still using the configured German locale. This appears to be an isolated missing translation or fallback for the new-task composer placeholder rather than the app switching entirely to English.

This is also a regression: an earlier app version displayed a German placeholder in this field.

What steps can reproduce the bug?

Use Codex Desktop with the interface language set to German.
Open the screen for starting a new task.
Leave the task composer empty.
Observe the placeholder text in the input field.

Observed result:

The placeholder reads do anything in English.
Other visible app UI remains in German.

What is the expected behavior?

The new-task composer placeholder should be localized in German, consistent with the rest of the interface and with earlier app versions.

Additional information

I searched the openai/codex issue tracker for the literal do anything and combinations of composer/input placeholder, German, locale, localization, and translation. I did not find an existing report for this specific regression.

There are broader reports about incomplete Chinese localization and separate German localization bugs, but they concern different strings and UI areas.

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claell · 20 days ago

Update on Codex Desktop 26.803.5235.0: this currently appears to be fixed after the latest update and restart.

The new-task composer placeholder is localized in German again and now reads Leg einfach los. I had also previously seen an English elapsed-work string in the expandable work summary, such as worked for nine minutes; that string was another affected area not mentioned in the original report. Its elapsed duration is now localized in German again as well.

Therefore, both localization symptoms I observed are currently resolved in this build:

The new-task composer placeholder is German again.
The elapsed-work text in the expandable work summary is German again.

I cannot tell whether this was fixed specifically in response to this report or incidentally as part of the update, but I can no longer reproduce either symptom on the current build.