i18n.noop function for tagging strings for gettext extraction

[Pete Woods]

It would be extremely useful for apps providing infographics if a pass through function for tagging existed in i18n.

e.g. i18n.noop("my string to extract but not translate")

This would be the equivalent of the N_ / gettext_noop function, but for QML.

[David Planella (dpm)]

Perhaps we could name it i18n.noop() to follow the gettext convention? It seems N_ is generally an alias to the gettext_noop macro [1]:

#define N_(String) gettext_noop (String)

[1] http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/gettext.html

[Pete Woods (pete-woods)]

Sure, that works for me.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package ubuntu-ui-toolkit - 1.1.1403+15.04.20150206-0ubuntu1

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ubuntu-ui-toolkit (1.1.1403+15.04.20150206-0ubuntu1) vivid; urgency=medium

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[Pete Woods (pete-woods)]

HI Pat, could you make a decision on if we can backport this fix to RTM?

It should be super low risk, and will un-block a fix for infographics translations: bug #1327419

[Pat McGowan (pat-mcgowan)]

pre-requisite to fix the other customer reported issue