I’m facing a problem mainly with how much space multilingual text in controls take up.
Here’s an example.
English:

German:

As you can see the text in the German version is following on in the control leaving me with an un-usable interface.
note, these are entered into label controls.
Does anyone have any ideas?
Adding this as an answer since I’m pretty sure this is your problem:
Don’t use static layout dimensions, i.e:
Bad
Good