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 <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> 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://www.wadecybertech.com > >>http://www.warplydesigned.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 > > 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 <[email protected]> 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://www.wadecybertech.com > >>http://www.warplydesigned.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
