We recently did something involving that.I guess one of them could be not really translating/localizing and just "babelfishing" the text.
As in, it is not enough just to convert the text to english, it should also make sense, grammar, spelling and idea sense.
http://www.romhacking.net/forum/index.p ... 211.0.html
I was not involved with those discussions(Not a Site Staff Member, merely an IRC Staff Member), so I cannot speak as to what the discussions were, nor do I think I would be allowed to say anyway(It IS private staff shit after all).