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

I used to work in a development team that happily wiped their asses with any naming (and for that matter any other coding) conventions. Believe it or not, having to cope with ä's and ö's in the code was a contributing factor of me resigning. Though I'm Finnish, I prefer writing code with US keyboard settings because curly and square brackets are a pain to write in a Finnish keyboard (try right alt and 7 and 0 for curlies).

So I say stick with the ascii characters.