multilingual

What options does one has when trying to set up an internationalized or multilingual user profile at multilingual site. When useing the core profile option the i18n module provides the posibility to translate the names of the profile fields, which might be enough for some profiles, but if you want a profile where user writes an introduction of him self, you are in trouble. Exposing the user entered text for translation trough t() function is not a good option.

This is an old issue, and I wish to get a clear up-to-date status of the situation in Drupal 6 (or 5). It may have been answered already, so a redirection would be as good as an answer :-)

1. RTL CSS files in core: In order to ease the RTLization of themes, and to set a nice example for themers and module developers, core modules should come with and RTL version of CSS. Such a set already exists, and is used in every hebrew Drupal site, and surely in other RTL languages sites as well.

The point of this post is to do a round up for the community, get on the same page with some of the developers, and find a path toward what to do for Drupal 6 core and beyond, as well as with contributed modules.