[development] Translating database fields

[Nedjo Rogers]

mark burdett wrote:
> Littering your module with if (module_exists('i18nstrings')) isn't so
> nice, so I'm hoping that a future version of core will provide a real
> API for string translation.. (where's the issue for this? :)
>
> --mark

The most advanced patch is http://drupal.org/node/361597, but lamentably
we didn't get it complete for D7.