When i18n goes a little extra

Hello Drupal folk,

I've been looking to build a multilingual (and localized) site for a client. (Please tell me if I'm in the wrong area to be asking/discussing this stuff).

I've been researching all the options and starting to confuse myself as the best method to use.

Country Set-up

The site I want to create has a few countries (i'll try keep out specifics so others can relate to it):

• Country A
• Country B
• Country C
• Country D

Some of these will just be in their native language. Some will be in English and also their native language. So the languages required will be:

• Language A (english)
• Language B
• Language C
• language C - English
• Language D
• Language D - English

Users

Now, in a perfect world, what I am hoping to achieve is a SuperAdmin who can make a post and send it to one or all countries (rather than having to login to each account and enter it multiple times). This is because some of the content will overlap, but the majority will be country based postings and pages.

I would then like CountryEditors who can only alter their respective country and use their languages on offer (So say country C will be able to make a post in the native language and a translation in english, nothing else).

Specs & Modules

I've decided on Drupal 6 because of it's advances with translations. With the i18n to allow for content translation and Localization Client to better allow translators complete untranslated strings within the site.

I've had a look at numerous sites options:

Domain Access

My research on this is leading me to believe there are issues with separating the languages due to some countries having both english and native.

Multisite Setup

If I can't connect the sites, then the information has to be repeatedly entered for each country.
(and with an attempt to share some nodes, but this won't work as the Country level editors wouldn't be allowed)

I think there was also set-up that attempted to combine Domain Access with a multisite set-up, but I've lost the link and not sure how it would hold up.

Once I nut this out I will try write a good comprehensive tutorial on the method I chose to go with. But I think I may end up having to separate the sites into their respective countries with a multisite setup and no nodes linked.

Plea for help

Has anyone else out there successfully completed a site such as this? What were the modules and site setup method that you used to have this work?

When I have a chance I will provide further information on what issues I have come across and methods I have discovered.

Cheers