Should you use international identifiers in Java/C#?

Question

C# and Java allow almost any character in class names, method names, local variables, etc.. Is it bad practice to use non-ASCII characters, testing the boundaries of poor e

Answer 1

If your business are non-English speakers, and you think Domain Driven Design has something to it, then there is another aspect: How do we, as developers, use the same domain language as our business without any translation overhead?

That does not only mean translations between languages, say English and Norwegian, but also between different words. We should use the exact same words as our business for our entity classes and services.

I have found it easier to just give in and use my native language. Now that my code use the same words, it's easier to have a conversation with my domain experts. And after a while you get used to it, just like how you got used to code without Hungarian notation.