Repro steps:

• Use Windows Figma Desktop App (Pro version)


• Open Local Variables widget


• Create a collection called: “Text Tokens”


• Inside the collection, create a string variable called: “Axis Parameters/Parameter_Properties”


• Duplicate this variable twice, such that you have three string variables total. The first is “Parameter_Properties”, the second is “Data_Display” and the third is “Ratio_Denominator”


• Create new variable modes such that you have four modes total.


• Name them: “English”, “Japanese”, “German”, “Chinese”, in that order


• Outside of Figma, open a browser search tab, and retrieve the English-to-Japanese translation for “Parameter Properties”.


• Copy the translation and paste it into the Parameter Properties:Japanese field. Be sure to use the Japanese script, NOT the alpha-numeric characters.


• Repeat this process for the translations to German and Chinese Simplified.


• Repeat the above steps for the “Data Display” and “Ratio Denominator” fields.


• You should now have three variable values saved in English, Japanese, German, and Chinese Simplified, resulting in 12 total values saved (four per variable).


• Close the Local Variables widget


• Close the project tab


• Reopen the project tab from the Home tab


• Reopen the local variables widget


• Observe that some of the Japanese, German, or Chinese values have been changed to the English value - these translations have been permanently overwritten.


• If you re-enter the values, they will be overwritten again at (seeming) random whenever you close the local variables widget

This overwriting occurs whether or not you close the project tab. I included the project tab step in the repro steps above as it is a reliable means of reproducing the error, however it is not necessary to trigger the bug.

I have not observed a pattern in the specific fields it overwrites, though that doesn’t mean there is not one - I just may not have found it.