I just learned a new trick. This is rather surprising to me, but you cannot translate an item category into multiple languages from the standard screen. For some reason, it is grayed out, so you are stuck with blank descriptions if you live in a multiple language SAP system. Here is how to correct that.
Go to SM30:
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Now, don’t let the description fool you. We aren’t really changing anything directly about this table, but from here, you can select your item categories, and use goto->translation.
and magically, you can translate your item categories into all the languages you care about.
Thanks for reading,
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