I still wonder though, just how much production non-comment source code is not written in the ASCII character set.
The libraries of most programming languages (developed in the west) are in ASCII - frameworks and middleware too. Have people in countries like Japan and China actually translated all of that code - renaming functions, classes, and variable names to their native tongue in Unicode - or do they just learn the English names (they are all nouns/pronouns and at most simple phrases so translation should not be too difficult; they don’t have to understand English grammar).
Microsoft translated all the commands in the scripting language for excell to native language, making it totally impossible to use for anyone. You can't even google it because the help is so split up in different languages.
The libraries of most programming languages (developed in the west) are in ASCII - frameworks and middleware too. Have people in countries like Japan and China actually translated all of that code - renaming functions, classes, and variable names to their native tongue in Unicode - or do they just learn the English names (they are all nouns/pronouns and at most simple phrases so translation should not be too difficult; they don’t have to understand English grammar).