I have been dealing with the problems of internationalization (i18N) in order to make applications world-ready for over a decade now. In fact, many years ago, my first community presentation was “Internationalisation and Globalisation in Visual Basic 6”.
There has recently been a discussion on the [rest-discuss] list titled “Conneg for language selection: Just Say No”. I wrote a lengthy response on the thread and thought that there was value converting that into a blog entry.