Item loss due to language installation

Items get lost when installing new language pack.
Workaround: PHP script that copies all "translatable" table rows with language = 1 (english assumed) with language = (new language_id). That way no products should get lost.

Greetings

sorry i didnt explain properly: i do no thave such a script and am not sharing it, that's the way I did it for a mulitlanguage CMS.