The way output data is handled is stupid and needs to be fixed.

Right now there is no way to represent tabular data. There should be a way to set headings, and record data in a table that is formatted by the individual admin interface libraries. There should also be a way to set a minimum column width (either absolute or percentage), and relative percentages for each column so that in the case of the data being too large for the screen, the interface lib can truncate data or adjust column widths as appropriate.

Translation also needs to be delayed until the last moment, and performed by the admin libs. This is because some libs (notably HTML) will not be simple stream line-based interfaces, but may have to move data around or represent it in a different manner. In this circumstance, the data has to be easily parsable so that it can pull out the relevant data and format it appropriately before translation mangles it into a different format.