Ayende mentions the problems he ran into trying to code in Hebrew, and that: 

For some reason Visual Studio is working a lot harder when I write code in Hebrew.

Sometimes, projects I am working on need to display other currency symbols, such as Korean Won (₩, check out this page for details about currency symbols). Visual Studio will switch my source code file to Unicode (after prompting me to make sure it's OK) and after that everything gets real slow whenever I have that file open.

Another thing this reminds me of is, in the late 90's, I remember seeing a localized version of VB in traditional Chinese. Not only was the UI localized - menus, buttons, etc. in the IDE - but you could use Chinese characters for variable names, type names, etc., and I think there was even an option to do keywords in Chinese as well. Someday, I am going to try to find out more about that, because there are certain philosophical questions that raises. 

Source: Why you can't code in Hebrew...
Originally published on Fri, 08 Sep 2006 12:10:06 GMT