1. A translation locking mechanism comprising: a lock tester to determine whether a translation lock prohibits changes to translatable properties of an object without locking non-translatable properties of the object, wherein the object is part of a software application, and wherein the translatable properties comprise data affected by a language translation; an editing tool, wherein the editing tool is configured to permit changes to non-translatable properties of the object without separating the object from the software application and even though the translation lock prohibits changes to the translatable properties; and a display system to display data, the display system identifying data that is not editable.