...it + since you are not autogenerating a translationid it may be easier to import items together with their related translations. The negative side of this is that if you have a complex language fallback mechanism you may need to implement that for each translation table - if you are relying on some ...

... The importance of locales is that your environment/os can provide formatting functionality for all installed locales even if you don't know about them when you write your application. My Windows 7 system has 211 locales installed...