Why UTF-8/16 character encodings?

[Manu]

On 30 May 2013 20:13, Dicebot <m.strashun at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thursday, 30 May 2013 at 09:36:43 UTC, monarch_dodra wrote:
>
>> What about Chinese? Russian? Japanese? It is doable, but I can tell you
>> for a fact that they very much don't like reading it that way.
>>
>> You know, having done programming in Japan, I know that a lot of devs
>> simply don't care for english, and they'd really enjoy just being able to
>> code in Japanese. I can't speak for the other countries, but I'm sure that
>> large but not spread out countries like China would also just *love* to be
>> able to code in 100% Madarin (I'd say they wouldn't care much for English
>> either).
>>
>
> What about poor guys from other country that will support that project
> after? English is a de-facto standard language for programming for a good
> reason.
>

Have you ever worked on code written by people who barely speak English?
Even if they write English words, that doesn't make it 'English', or any
easier to understand. And people often tend to just transliterate into
latin, which is kinda pointless too, how does that help?
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