hi aienn-
sorry about the delay, my attention had to be elsewhere for a while...
i thought the system prefs option was per-application as well, but it appears to actually be per-document. this seemed kind of odd, but it appears to work rather well with textedit. the plan is to get this working with vdmx at some point- it's not really "international support", it's just a matter of vdmx "playing nice" and behaving as you would expect it to (it's also tied in with another change which we'll have to make around the same time).
we're considering international support because there have been an increasing number of requests for translations of both the app and it's documentation. i didn't know about the attempts to translate photoshop menus- i think that's funny as hell, thanks for bringing it up. to be perfectly honest, it never occurred to me to wonder if international support would make things worse for users. like i said, this isn't something we're working on now- in an ideal world, we'd be able to delay it until we can figure out how we want to handle resolution-independent interfaces (the button text being sized differently is one of our primary concerns, as even now we've had a number of complaints that the size of the button text is too small). all this stuff is far enough off that it's not even on our radar right now. it's just the icing on the cake.
peace
: : ray