As a French living in Japan, I can tell that it's the same thing for cheap companies that don't care about the code quality, but with an even worse mix of chara

As a French living in Japan, I can tell that it's the same thing for cheap companies that don't care about the code quality, but with an even worse mix of characters. To reuse your example, I've seen things like that: void deleteお問い合わせ(Map[] otoiawase) I haven't seen old enough codebases to have encoding issues, but I bet that it would make me shrug the next time I see an é.