OS X has a nice feature allowing localized pathnames, which would be great for the Media collection as not all kids know English. You can rename a directory to directory.localized with a .localized subdir containing: en.strings, es.strings, fr.strings, nl.strings etc. These utf8 files contain key-value pairs.
This is documented: http://developer.apple.com/documentation/MacOSX/Conceptual/BPInternational/Articles/LocalizingPathnames.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/20002141
I tried to do it and it worked great in the Finder, I found however that the scratch-developers would need to adjust the file-selector code because the paths are hardcoded and scratch is not aware of the feature by default (probably because MIT rolled their own file-selector instead of using the Cocoa one).
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