Thanks for the answer, Jan.

I was inteded to translate text on the sidebar blocks.

there is another way... rather than individual macros in the RTE you can replace your <umbraco:Item field="contents" runat="server" /> (or whatever your rte content param is) with a macro that replaces tokens in that content.

You need to remember to grab the rte content and render any macros already in it using the umbraco.library.RenderMacroContent(String, NodeId); if you do already use macros in the content.

we went with {#XXXX} to keep consistent with the shorthand for dictionary items elsewhere.

something like the below in a usercontrol macro worked for us.

#region replace any dictionary items
            try
            {
                Regex regDictionaryItem = new Regex(@"{#([^}]*)}", RegexOptions.IgnoreCase);
                MatchCollection ms = regDictionaryItem.Matches(umbraco.library.StripHtml(doc.InnerXml));

                foreach (Match match in ms)
                {

                    try
                    {
                        // make replacements in the content xml text nodes only, for any matching definition term
                        // get all text nodes (reset as the previous lookup may have generated more textnodes)
                        // filter to what we are looking for allow for upper and lower as xpath is case-sensitive
                        // NB this might have false matches as not looking for words, but does filter in the right direction

                        doc.DocumentElement.SetAttribute("searchAttribute0", match.Groups[0].Value);
                        XmlNodeList textNodes = doc.SelectNodes("//text() [contains(.,//@searchAttribute0)]");

                        for (var i = 0; i < textNodes.Count; i++)
                        {
                            //loop throught the matched textnodes to replace on a word matching basis
                            textNodes[i].InnerText = textNodes[i].InnerText.Replace(match.Groups[0].Value, umbraco.library.GetDictionaryItem(match.Groups[1].Value));
                        }
                    }
                    catch
                    {
                        UmbracoJPT.Utils.Files.WriteToLogFile("error", @"DICTIONARYITEM ERROR" + match.Groups[0].Value + @"
", true);
                    }                    
                }
            }
            catch { }
            #endregion

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