Regarding my duplicate ticket about creating an i18n compatible installer, I translated almost all the strings of the install files today to en_US and nl_NL to see how far I could come to create a language selectable installer.
See tickets:
http://open.silverstripe.org/ticket/4782
http://open.silverstripe.org/ticket/1716
I successfully managed to install Silverstripe in Dutch.
This concerns a fully translated install procedure, admin user will be set to the selected Locale and the requireDefaults will be imported in the selected language.
I moved some files to a seperate install folder to keep the code together. All files in this folder can be removed after install.
I borrowed some code from the i18n class for a seperate Language translation class, to make it independed from Sapphire in case things are not supported. I uses _tr instead of _t function, to avoid conflicts with the Core _t during install.
The install process language is seperated from the final installation language, cause I only have 2 languages translated (I suck at most other languages...). The installer will try to recognize the browser setting for the initial language setting..
I think some things can be done better and I don't know how it works when it is being installed by the command line, but on my server It works like any other install.
I think this is a nice addition to Silverstripe.
And when the core devs want this to integrate, I would be happy to take this to a further level.
I can deliver a mulilang zip file for testing (seemed a little too big for the forum...).