Many modern operating systems on powerful desktop computers have good and improving support for internationalisation, and are used by English-speaking users with low internationalisation requirements. Many older, lower powered, less expensive desktops, mobile devices, mobile phones, wordprocessors - with poor or non-existent internationalization - are being used by speakers of 'non-industrialized' languages with high internationalisation requirements. These users, in an effort to use their own language, are often having to use inappropriate or language-specific, underdocumented techniques with known drawbacks, because they simply cannot wait years or decades for all the juicy high technology to filter down to them. This traps these languages in legacy, and makes the job of librarians of the future and localisation engineers of the present much harder. What can be done about this?