Code localization is hard work and Microsoft has my respect for their efforts to support local language, number and symbol preferences (see Sorting it out for all sorts of details on Unicode and non-roman alphabet representation).
With the exception of some menu French gained from cooking and eating over the years, I speak no languages other than English. I've no idea what will become of this project but I'm taking the time to make the string literals that represent titles of graphical elements like menu items, axis descriptions and other labels, dialog headers and so on into formal resource items so that they can be localized later.
Visual Studio could make it easier in the symbolic naming and .Net's xx-yy resource notations aren't all that straight-forward either.
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