There are a great deal of resources available on this subject, not all of them helpful. The best single collection is John Yunkers 'Beyond Borders' although is is largely concerned with implementation issues, unicode etc.

For the human factors surrounding internationalisation, you could check out the proceedings of the IWIPS series of conferences. If you want to pay, the ACM portal which has downloadable papers from their conferences and publications, many of which will be concerning cross-cultural usability, etc.

It is best to avoid random searches of the internet as a lot of so-called expert resources are full of unhelpful urban myths about colour (If 'white is the colour of death in Japan' is true, it hasn't stopped Yahoo Japan being very popular) and untrue cautionary stories about poor translation.

Which countries/languages are you looking at? Any other info? I dealt with translating website into Korean, Chinese, Japanese, French and German but consider myself qualified only to suggest what not to do! Depending on what you're doing I may be able to point you in right direction for specific languages/subjects. Gideon

John, I used to work in this field and know many of the companies that can do it, what they do, how they do it etc.  I have also been invoved in many large web internationalization/localization projects.  If you need advive you could give me a call.  It is hard to point you at good research because there is general stuff that won't help at all, and specific stuff that gets down to technologies that may be irrelevant.

Ian Harris +44 113 2121211