[karmakaze]

I think this is a pattern that does get used. The method I've seen is that the English language text is saved in files in particular directories with text keys. Translators add similar files with different text for the same keys and commit to the repo. Whether this is done manually or automated isn't a big deal. The app could even run the `git` commands and operate on the output of those commands and filesystem--there's nothing particularly hard to parse.