How do people from non-English speaking countries write code?

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Especially in Mandarin & Japanese speaking countries – for example: how does variable & function naming work if the language primarily consists of symbolic characters?

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This reminds me of the horror of helping someone with some Excel crap where all formula functions were translated to local language.

Pretty much everyone I know writes code using English names for variables classes etc. Sometimes variables have native names because there’s no universally recognised translation and trying to use one would do more harm than good…

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