rtl

I'm new to Drupal, I am about to create a multi-language site, I had to go with D5.7 since D6 is not yet compatible with many modules that I want to use.
I've been researching drupal sites for a step-by-step guide , I found some information in drupal handbooks but I still have many questions:

• the locale module allows to translate core drupal modules and strings, does the i18n module allow to translate any newly installed modules ? or is it just about translating content (nodes) ?

Updated: June 20, 2007: RTL HTML Email now possible with my patch to the new htmlmail module.

Requirements for Drupal 6 core RTL email support - Request for comments

It has been 8 months since I've implemented a Drupal 4.7 user.module patch to support RTL emails (attached).

My next target is to ask for the RTL/i18n community help to update the code and migrate those proven changes into the Drupal 6 core. This will save tons of later headache.

Here are the basic requirements - I will need your feedback on the concept (implementation is quite straightforward).

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.