I speak from bitter experience, believe me. My day job is translating. Once upon a time, in a company that shall remain nameless where I was working, the helpful IT department came up, at my request, with an automated template translator into French (to avoid, in theory, our having to translate the exact same stuff every time we worked on a certain type of document: dates (January -> janvier), fields such as 'originated by', 'approved by', etc.):

Approved by Paul Newby
Approuvé par Paul Newpar
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Oh how we laughed.

dave