So just to make this absolutely clear: Yes, all the infrastructure work we've done for internationalization is done as part of OpenACS, so everything will work without dotLRN as well.
What we have *not* done is convert each and every package there is in OpenACS to use the message catalog. We've only converted packages that are used by a typical dotLRN installation.
Thus, we'll encourage others to convert the remaining packages as they need them. We have provided very powerful tools to help with this work, and the documentation is even somewhat usable 😉
/Lars
