Regional Translation - South Asia

software designed with english, many dialects in india and southasia
problem with date time abbreviation problem
phrase in english when translated takes up more spaces in the ui
date, time, number formats problems
gender issues
preservation of context while translating is hard to maintain to preverse ui, compromise
shortage of words, iceland is generating words, nepali and most indian transliterate those words.
pootle, launchpad helps with tooltip, but it suggests what translators have already done

improper aphabetical sorting due to unicode problems, move from unicode to cldr sorting
in latin, some font dont support some characters
regional context based translation (burgers and ball)
rewriting content than literal translation is sometimes better (shakespere poems and bilbles for ex in kannada)
hows the experience with tools?
plone translated to kannada, helped in disaster management, govt included that into local ration shops
one option can be conf files
image localization problem
wikipedia plugin for non-unicode solutions (non-unicode to unicode solution)
machine translation issues and translation corpus
rendering issues with lingatures
book sprint topic