Installation and first import overwrites individual translations [#968748]

with installing l10n_update (dev-version) and performing the update all former individual translations were gone.

In this case i could handle this, but want to leave this issue as a hint for others and I had not the time to investigate, if individual translations imported through a file are overwritten too.

Comment	File	Size	Author
#6	l10n_update-968748-06.patch	2.02 KB	sutharsan
#4	l10n_update.png	10.59 KB	podarok
#4	l10n_update-968748-04-d7.patch	2.58 KB	podarok
#3	l10n_update-968748-03.patch	3.48 KB	sutharsan

Comments

Comment #1

sutharsan commented 15 November 2010 at 09:49

This problem only occurs when Localization Update is installed on an existing site with existing translation and locally modified translation strings. Since Drupal core does not store any state of locally modified translation strings, the is no way to distinguish when L10n Update gets installed.

Localization Update has two Update modes:
* Translation updates replace existing ones, new ones are added
* Edited translations are kept, only default ones (previously imported) are overwritten and new translations are added
The latter is the default.

We could add a third option to only add new translations and not overwrite existing translations. This would be in line with the core Import option:
* Existing strings are kept, only new strings are added.

Comment #2

Thomas_Zahreddin commented 15 November 2010 at 10:54

sounds good to me.

Comment #3

sutharsan commented 27 November 2010 at 22:17

Status:

Active

» Needs review

Status	File	Size
new	l10n_update-968748-03.patch	3.48 KB

This patch does adds an option: "All existing translations are kept, only new translations are added." Which is equal to the Locale option "Existing strings are kept, only new strings are added." and is the new default.