One of my first jobs out of school was implementing internationalisation libraries for an application that ran on Windows and a variety of Unixes (AIX, HP-UX and Solaris, if memory serves). It was predictably horrible and understandably no one with actual work experience wanted to do this tedious labour. In the course of my work, I found and reported/fixed various bugs in other parts of the application and built a certain amount of credibility in the eyes of my coworkers despite being so fresh-faced, mainly because I was in this particular trench alone. It showed me the value of tackling the ugly stuff as a chance to control one's micro-destiny, so to speak.

That said, if faced with that particular task now, I'd delegate it to a new grad in a flash.