Firefox/Feature Brainstorming:Internationalization

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Specific features	References
Language support Improve complex glyph rendering Support more complex languages (Hebrew, Persian, Arabic, pangool, all Indian languages) Multilingual browser, to allow single binary for multilingual systems Being able to switch user-interface language without restarting the browser. The implementing of the bidirectional algorithm #1 if it isn't already implemented so that Firefox could render Arabic #2 phrases embedded in English texts correctly.#1 : see http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr9/ #2 : not restricted to Arabic only but to all RTL complex scripts. Convert/Fix/Implement the Unicode control characters or the 'byte code'to the real script,which happens when you type Arabic #2 text in the location bar and click 'Go', the text gets converted to weird characters(Unicode control characters). Localization Times are converted local times Units such as currency, weight, distance are converted or highlighted, and allow for right click interactions	See bug #240914. (David Baron said: I expect this will be fixed for Gecko 1.9 (i.e., Firefox 3.0...) See bug #356184.
General tasks
Ability to highlight text/tables in a webpage and then right click and "Export to OpenOffice.org Calc/Writer or Microsoft Excel/Word" depending on users preference and operating system.	Many people I have shown Mozilla Firefox to have missed such a feature as it is in Microsoft Internet Explorer.
Improving bidi text editing. Sometimes it crashes in textarea, which is very annoying in wikis (suppose you're writing an article for wikipedia).	bug#315748
Variant button
A variant button to show a human friendly variant list, in particular the list of available languages in the server. The main intention is to use the variant button as a language button. This could also go to section 3 of this page.	The variant button Text from this document could be copied to this page.
MALAYALAM support
Please try to include the support for Malayalam language followed by millions of people from the Kerala state in India. IE already supports this.
Indian "Languages"
Can we stop calling Indian languages "dialects"? And yes, I support the previous comment, firefox still doesn't render Indic scripts (you need to recompile with pango etc). This needs to be fixed.