My solution is to add a field to the same table that holds title or name. The effort for this should be near-zero for the person that adds the other fields.
However there doesn't seem to be much interest in discussing i18n, we don't have a solution yet, so why discuss who will do it?
Dirk, I totally agree this is important. I just think that process-wise, Timo only agreed to do the first step. Later steps should probably go through the same process (i.e. TIP etc)
I18N is very important -- it's part of what makes OpenACS so strong. But you're right, nobody is really stepping forward to do it.