internationalizing text

so who's got a clever implementation of cross-linguistic texts?

create table something (
id serial,
yadayada int4,
whatever date,
mumble float8,

en varchar(50), -- english
es varchar(50), -- espanol
fr varchar(50), -- francais
de varchar(50), -- deutsch

...
);

or maybe

create table something (
id serial,
yadayada int4,
whatever date,
mumble float8,
...
);
create table something_text (
id int4 references something(id),
lang varchar(5), -- language code 'en-us','it','jp'...
descr varchar(50)
);

anybody done something like this? is there another concept or are
these two the whole ball-o-wax? pro's and con's?

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