> In our experience non-ASCII characters are pretty rare in code. Many development teams chose to use English as the primary development language
Is this true for the whole world, or just Europe/US?
Is this true for the whole world, or just Europe/US?
I remember many moons ago MooTools announced international API translations as an April Fools joke. It did make me wonder if there’s an interesting programming experiment to be done there… but I’m a native English speaker so I’m not best positioned to know!
I actually have encountered a lot of problem with English codebases in those countries as they often try to translate regional concepts that are not directly translatable. This is particularly annoying when it comes to administrative stuff where one English word can refer to different local concepts (ex: geographical divisions of the territory) and translations always clumsy. I have even seen nasty bugs come from there, where a "county" had a different meaning in different places of the code as different teams had different idea of what a county was but didn't discuss it.