We are trying to indianize KDE. We have translatted po file (of kedit) but after making mo file and putting it in appropriate dir
Take a look at i18n.kde.org You should get enough information there. I am also interested in the same area but I would like to tranlate it for marathi. take a look at indic-computing mailing lists at sourceforge.net they should be able to respond better to your querries.
Shashank