<arguments>
<argument name="columns" xsi:type="array">
<item name="product" xsi:type="string" translate="true">Product</item>
<item name="status" xsi:type="string" translate="true">Item Status</item>
<item name="price-original" xsi:type="string" translate="true">Original Price</item>
<item name="price" xsi:type="string" translate="true">Price</item>
<item name="ordered-qty" xsi:type="string" translate="true">Qty</item>
<item name="subtotal" xsi:type="string" translate="true">Subtotal</item>
<item name="tax-amount" xsi:type="string" translate="true">Tax Amount</item>
<item name="tax-percent" xsi:type="string" translate="true">Tax Percent</item>
<item name="discont" xsi:type="string" translate="true">Discount Amount</item>
<item name="total" xsi:type="string" translate="true">Row Total</item>
</argument>
</arguments>
Custom
seems to work if you edit sales_order_view.xml directly in vendor folder.
Vendor/Module/view/adminhtml/sales_order_view.xml are seemingly ignored.
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