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  • @sam-3 McGoldrick

    It seems that multilingual databases have been though about, but their concept may have been patented and no one is willing to pay the patent license fees. I may be wrong in this, but it's the closest I could come up with as a solution to this all to common problem of localized data.

    Oh, and here is an example of such a patent:

    http://www.freshpatents.com/Techniques-for-processing-data-from-a-multilingual-database-dt20081009ptan20080249998.php