Bigger issue with the translation file. I had a file where I added 90% of the file that was translated already, and it was missing some keys. The translator then truncated everything and only added the keys that were missing.
On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 11:26 AM, Anthony <abasta...@gmail.com> wrote: > I agree -- if the file exists and appears corrupted, a warning or error > would be more appropriate rather than silent overwriting (particularly > since "corruption" will most likely just be a different encoding). > > Anthony > > > On Monday, March 5, 2012 1:20:26 PM UTC-5, Detectedstealth wrote: >> >> That could work but my point is when I opened the file in a text editor >> everything looked fine, however it was then overwritten so I was clueless >> as to why it was happening, until I went to save as and seen the encoding. >> Once I changed it to UTF-8 the file was no longer overwritten. >> >> -- >> Regards, >> Bruce >> >> On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 10:10 AM, Alan Etkin <spame...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Maybe allowing to override the behavior with a initial argument? In >>> that way, developers could do: >>> >>> T.no_overwrite = True >>> >>> And default to the normal file managing. >>> >>> >>> On Mar 5, 2:13 pm, Massimo Di Pierro <massimo.dipie...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> > web2py rewrites language files in order to add translation strings. If >>> it >>> > does not find a string, it adds it. The problem in your case is that >>> the >>> > file appears corrupted (not utf8, not created by web2py) and therefore >>> it >>> > find no translation string and needs to add them all. >>> > >>> > This is the intended behavior. Can we change it? How should it >>> > behave exactly in this case? >>> > If it does not overwrite it, you are going to get a ticket when you try >>> > edit using the admin interface. >>> > >>> > massimo >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > On Monday, 5 March 2012 09:37:01 UTC-6, Detectedstealth wrote: >>> > >>> > > Was able to resolve the problem, the file was encoded as: GB18030 >>> changing >>> > > to UTF-8 allowed the file to show up again. >>> > >>> > > However I think the framework should give a error like unable to >>> read file >>> > > etc... instead of just overwriting a file? >>> > >>> > > On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 7:29 AM, Bruce Wade <bruce.w...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> > >>> > >> Hi, >>> > >>> > >> I gave someone a translation file to translate, however when I put >>> the >>> > >> new file in the languages folder it gets overridden by web2py >>> > >> automatically. Any specific reason this would happen? >>> > >>> > >> -- >>> > >> -- >>> > >> Regards, >>> > >> Bruce Wade >>> > >>http://ca.linkedin.com/in/**brucelwade<http://ca.linkedin.com/in/brucelwade> >>> > >>http://www.wadecybertech.com >>> > >>http://www.warplydesigned.**com <http://www.warplydesigned.com> >>> > >>http://www.**fitnessfriendsfinder.com<http://www.fitnessfriendsfinder.com> >>> > >>> > > -- >>> > > -- >>> > > Regards, >>> > > Bruce Wade >>> > >http://ca.linkedin.com/in/**brucelwade<http://ca.linkedin.com/in/brucelwade> >>> > >http://www.wadecybertech.com >>> > >http://www.warplydesigned.com >>> > >http://www.**fitnessfriendsfinder.com<http://www.fitnessfriendsfinder.com> >>> > >>> > On Monday, 5 March 2012 09:37:01 UTC-6, Detectedstealth wrote: >>> > >>> > > Was able to resolve the problem, the file was encoded as: GB18030 >>> changing >>> > > to UTF-8 allowed the file to show up again. >>> > >>> > > However I think the framework should give a error like unable to >>> read file >>> > > etc... instead of just overwriting a file? >>> > >>> > > On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 7:29 AM, Bruce Wade <bruce.w...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> > >>> > >> Hi, >>> > >>> > >> I gave someone a translation file to translate, however when I put >>> the >>> > >> new file in the languages folder it gets overridden by web2py >>> > >> automatically. Any specific reason this would happen? >>> > >>> > >> -- >>> > >> -- >>> > >> Regards, >>> > >> Bruce Wade >>> > >>http://ca.linkedin.com/in/**brucelwade<http://ca.linkedin.com/in/brucelwade> >>> > >>http://www.wadecybertech.com >>> > >>http://www.warplydesigned.**com <http://www.warplydesigned.com> >>> > >>http://www.**fitnessfriendsfinder.com<http://www.fitnessfriendsfinder.com> >>> > >>> > > -- >>> > > -- >>> > > Regards, >>> > > Bruce Wade >>> > >http://ca.linkedin.com/in/**brucelwade<http://ca.linkedin.com/in/brucelwade> >>> > >http://www.wadecybertech.com >>> > >http://www.warplydesigned.com >>> > >http://www.**fitnessfriendsfinder.com<http://www.fitnessfriendsfinder.com> >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> -- >> Regards, >> Bruce Wade >> http://ca.linkedin.com/in/**brucelwade<http://ca.linkedin.com/in/brucelwade> >> http://www.wadecybertech.com >> http://www.warplydesigned.com >> http://www.**fitnessfriendsfinder.com<http://www.fitnessfriendsfinder.com> >> > -- -- Regards, Bruce Wade http://ca.linkedin.com/in/brucelwade http://www.wadecybertech.com http://www.warplydesigned.com http://www.fitnessfriendsfinder.com
