Wouldn't it be great if you could associate IPTC-IM in different languages with a single image? Although the XMP (eXtensibel Metadata Platform) standard image metadata, also known as ISO 16684-1, supports multi-lingual metadata (at least for some fields), currently, none of the commonly used software packages, like Photoshop and Photo Mechanic, support multi-lingual IPTC-IM. Unless your customer uses proprietary data that can read and interpret multi-lingual IPTC-IM, you are bound to manage multiple copies of the same image, only differentiation by the language in which IPTC-IM is written. But a more challenging, or should I say, the time-consuming challenge, is to write IPTC-IM in multiple languages and ensure their consistency, not only when you are not native in each language. At least here on this front, technology can offer a sound solution. It is called AI-based machine translation.