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 <[email protected]> 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 <[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 >> > > > > -- > -- > Regards, > Bruce Wade > http://ca.linkedin.com/in/brucelwade > http://www.wadecybertech.com > http://www.warplydesigned.com > http://www.fitnessfriendsfinder.com >
