Text types and multiple languages

[Tim McGrath <tmcgrath@portcomm.com.au>]

A while ago we discussed the best way to support multi-lingual text (for 
example descriptions of the same catalogue line in English, French and 
German).

It has been proposed we use the cardinality of the BBIE to allow many 
occurrences - e.g. one per language.  But this creates an issue with 
abuse of the repeating text elements.

The possible identified was to create a "multi-lingual" qualified data 
type, that somehow resricted the type to using different LanguageCodes 
(per instance???).  I think we passed this to someone to investigate the 
technical feasability (Bryan?)  but I dont know if we got a resolution.

Can we talk about this on the next call as I need to know what to do in 
the spreadsheets.

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