Smart Trim implements a new field formatter for textfields (text, text_long, and text_with_summary, if you want to get technical) that improves upon the "Summary or Trimmed" formatter built into Drupal 7
This module is basically an advanced devel generate (see the devel module). Gives more control over the dummy content that gets generated by devel. (I haven't used it yet but it seems promising.)
"Gábor Hojtsy on Drupal" - A breakdown of multilingual feature in Drupal.
7: http://hojtsy.hu/multilingual-drupal7
8: http://hojtsy.hu/multilingual-drupal8
"A list of hooks in all* Drupal contrib modules (6.x and 7.x), in descending order of how often they're implemented. (Consolidated a few that were renamed between 6 and 7) * Within a rounding error. :P" https://gist.github.com/webchickenator/4409685 Reproduced below in case the link above ever breaks.
Sometimes automated tools like my favorite, MySQL Workbench, don't always migrate extended characters properly. I had a problem where a particular field would truncate after the German ü, the u with the umlaut.
Just found what appears to be a very nice site designed to help people get up to speed with learning how to manage translations and run a multilingual Drupal site.
http://drupal-translation.com/