Two very good questions. All we definately know is that Firaxis has a tradition of making easily-translatable games, with both SMG! and SMAC carrying all language-specific text in separate files. SMAC, IIRC, was translated into Spanish, French and German officially and a few others by fans. That was handled by the Publisher, though, which was EA back then, but since Infogrames is a french publisher I'll assume that they will put some efforts into at least a french translation.
The second question is probably more difficult to assess at the moment, since I know zilch about Infogrames corporate culture. EA was good with releasing games quickly and widely all over the world- IIRC the special edition of Ultima IX came out just about everywhere. Again, though, it's a european publisher and we can guess that they probably will.
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