Not my experience. Plenty of codebases have variables in local language in France Germany and Sweden (where I have experience). I actually have encountered a l

Not my experience. Plenty of codebases have variables in local language in France Germany and Sweden (where I have experience). I actually have encountered a lot of problem with English codebases in those countries as they often try to translate regional concepts that are not directly translatable. This is particularly annoying when it comes to administrative stuff where one English word can refer to different local concepts (ex: geographical divisions of the territory) and translations always clumsy. I have even seen nasty bugs come from there, where a "county" had a different meaning in different places of the code as different teams had different idea of what a county was but didn't discuss it.