There are now four translations for AXIS 1.2: German, Romanian, Hungarian, and Italian. There is now a separate page with screenshots of each translation. These are all available in the latest CVS snapshots. Simply set the LANG environment variable to an appropriate value (e.g., LANG=de or LANG=de_DE or LANG=de_AT for the german translation) in the shell where you start emc.

There's still no schedule set for the release of AXIS 1.2 (we don't like schedules), but the CVS version is very stable.
(originally posted on the AXIS blog)