I've helped several times now with transitioning English only projects to supporting multiple languages and it's always going to be messy to be honest. There's

I've helped several times now with transitioning English only projects to supporting multiple languages and it's always going to be messy to be honest. There's never one way to do it, the text to translate is always stored in several different places (e.g. in web page text, URLs, common strings, documents, images) and the tools the translators need to use will differ (e.g. maybe a WordPress plugin, spreadsheets, gettext app or web interface). It's going to vary project to project is what I mean and it's very dependent on how your project is coded. This post about localising the game Papers, Please has lots of good examples of project specific issues: http://dukope.tumblr.com/post/83177288060/localizing-papers-please-papers-please-was http://dukope.tumblr.com/post/83177288060/localizing-papers-...