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You have come up with an elegant approach for dynamic handling of language-specific output in SAPscript. Unfortunately, as you probably have found already, this particular approach does not work in Smart Forms.
Within a Smart Form, you can set up an 'Include text' node to access standard texts as used in SAPscript. In addition, you can specify dynamically the language to retrieve (via a variable in the language parameter). However, any commands within these standard texts -- such as DEFINE -- are ignored.
Thus, I would recommend simplifying your approach. Based on your example above, since you can no longer assign the words 'To be priced' and 'A prÉmarquer' to variables within standard texts, why not put the words directly into these standard texts (or into text modules) instead and invoke them solely when you wish to produce output? As an alternative -- if you need tighter control over how these words appear or wish to minimize external text retrieval -- insert a language-dependent CASE statement assigning the words to variables within the Smart Form itself (in the Initialization section or a Program node).
Either approach will allow you to rely upon a single Smart Form for your multi-language output. If there are many, many such texts you may wish to reevaluate whether the benefits outweigh the disadvantages of having a single form for multi-language output.
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