I'm a non-english-speaking peasant. I code in English, because it's the lingua franca of coding, and because they form the only characters that you can reliably use everywhere.

Besides, that's why the ban only extends to syntax and string literals (use escapes instead), and not comments.

From my experience, the only two nationalities that insist on mixing their native languages with the mostly English syntax of programming languages are the French and the Japanese. And they can just suck it up for the other 8 billion of us.