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Neil,

>are you allowed to mix languages on a single stored record 

Yes, but as we are mostly talking about notes then generally 
the languages will not be mixed.

>Do you let a French client update a German record/field?

Absolutely.  Everybody shares the same data, most of which 
doesn't need translating.  The data is motor car related and
the terminology is pretty standard throughout the world.  
However, the users are allowed free text entry into notes and
other similar fields.

>Do you let the French client *see* the German information?

Yep, see above

>Fortunately, our programming software vendor, being multi-
national, had thought ahead and provide an environment-type 
variable that can be set/queried/changed programmatically such 
that, for example, the local paradigm has PF5 key set to allow 
the client to switch between the local language values.

Unfortunately, 18 months ago the decision was made that we 
would only produce an English version.  However, such is the
real-world that a few months ago the decision was reversed and
we were asked to think about translation :(  I have done plenty 
of screen translation in the past and I am aware of the 
difficulties of adding it on at the end.

Thanks for your input.

Andy