Quoting "R. Alan Monroe" <amonroe@...813...>:
Since it's vector art, couldn't you just put any additional language texts in the svg file as a tiny micro-paragraph beside the normal text? You could just zoom in to the alternative texts or stretch them to read them.
I don't think that would really be helpful, but it is an interesting idea.
A similar approach would be to put all language texts in the same document (overlaying one another) and use the SVG <switch> element so that only the one matching the current language gets rendered.
I'm not sure how well that would work, though, since different languages will have different paragraph lengths and to look nice might require the documents to be relaid-out depending on language (which <switch> can't do).
Admittedly, we don't support the <switch> element yet, but it is planned.
-mental