It can be smaller than the number of columns found in the table meta data.

The main thing that's broken is the unnecessary color conversion in case bgra
vertex arrays are supported. It shouldn't be hard to fix that, but at this
point I don't think this hack even helps a lot anymore.

Don't break the strings to translate in little chunks: this makes it
hard or even impossible to translate them correctly. For instance it
must be possible to insert an unbreakable space before question marks
for French.