From 80d89a086ed3b8791549b322a86cf63606f58d27 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Julian Lam <julian@nodebb.org>
Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2016 14:04:37 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] fixed issue where NodeBB was trying to JSON.parse [object
 Object]

re: #4982
---
 public/src/modules/translator.js | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/public/src/modules/translator.js b/public/src/modules/translator.js
index 0ac8f8b004..70eaad8d8e 100644
--- a/public/src/modules/translator.js
+++ b/public/src/modules/translator.js
@@ -314,7 +314,7 @@
 			};
 
 			if (err && err.code === 'ENOENT') {
-				data = {};
+				data = '{}';
 			} else if (err) {
 				winston.error('[translator] Error while loading language file: ' + err.message);
 				return callback({});