Hey Pierre your right but I thought I added options to pass some vars to the string translation of WPML, looks like I didn’t do this :/
There is an alternative to what you suggest, as all search forms are actually a custom post type, I could hook the search form in to WPML the same way as regular posts, and have different translation options right there on the search and filter main page which lists all forms…
Kinda like the flags you see next to regular posts – this in effect will create your “cloned” search forms, but in the WPML way of doing things…
The more I think about it the more I like the second option actually, but I guess when creating new languages you want the same form structure automatically imported rather than having to create them from scratch for each language.
Let me know what you think anyway am interested to hear your thoughts 🙂