Enter text by language

You can enter text for blocks and pages in English and Japanese. Customer accounts show the text that matches each customer’s language.

How to enter text

1. Open the block or page editor.
2. Under Language to edit at the top right of Content, choose English or Japanese.
3. Enter section headings and content text in that language.
4. Check how it looks in that language in the preview on the right, then save.

• Fields you haven’t filled in yet show the value from the other language (“Not filled in. Showing the Japanese value.”). Only the fields you change are saved as text for that language.
• If you clear a field and save, it goes back to the other language’s value.
• Block names and page names aren’t set per language.
• Announcements and the customer details form can’t be entered per language yet.

Which language customers see

Customers see text in this order:

1. Text in the customer’s language.
2. Text in your store’s default language.
3. The first text that has been entered.

To show English text, English must be published in your store. Check it under Settings > Languages in your Shopify admin.

Check how it looks

Customer accounts may not show a language switcher. To check the English version, add ?locale=en to the end of the customer account URL.

If it doesn’t look right

• You entered English, but it’s shown in Japanese: Check that English is published in your store and that the customer’s language is English.
• Only some text is shown in Japanese: Those fields don’t have English yet. Fields you haven’t filled in show the other language’s value.