===Automatically translate names and places===
As of the current From Gramps version (3.2), GRAMPS doesn't support language tagging of alternative names --- whether for a person or a location. That is, you can add multiple alternative names, each in a different language, but still only one of them will be the primary one --- and will be the one picked up for a report. Nevertheless, when exporting to a relative not speaking your language, or when preparing a report for a part of your family having different language preferences than yourself, you need to change the primary language, but only in a temporary manner --- so that you still continue maintaining your own DB in your preferred language.
Luckily, the simplicity of the GRAMPS XML format allows the use of a small XSL stylesheet, fed by a local translation table of the names you want translated, which you can use for this purpose. Here's how you can easily do it on Linux:
