Did some improvements to pomerge with Dwayne on Friday.
Also started at looking at integrating dictionaries - like Swahili - think I know what needs to be patched now to integrate them into the build.
OK, hopefully I've wrapped up the encoding problems with properties files as well as some other bugs Dwayne reported. Tested this out on the Mozilla 1.6 Russian xpi and seemed to work fine (though I can't read the results)... So released it as translate 0.8 beta 1, for everyone else to test...