Two words – “localisation support” and a whole dam of ideas break loose. Here’s what I feel folks should be talking about:

o Locales : ownership/maintaining of/the CLDR data
o Fonts
o Rendering & Printing with relevance to Rendering Engines
o Input Methods with associated Keyboard Layouts

o Spell Checkers
o Thesaurus
o Dictionaries
o Sorting & Collation Algorithms
o Standards (ODF, W3C [especially relevant to Browsers], Unicode)
o OCR
o AT-SPI
o Application level L10n (application development related areas)

W3C would be a nice place to begin when looking at web centric application services