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by Joker_vD 1315 days ago
> And what a mess that is

Not really; there are no localized function names for languages that use non-Latin based scripts because otherwise one would have to constantly switch keyboard layouts to type any formula. Except for the Russian version of Excel which uses Latin-spelt cell names (D1, F2, etc.) but Cyrillic-spelt function names (ЕСЛИ, СУММ, БЕССЕЛЬ.J, etc.), of course.

> Maybe, someday in the future we will have to learn Mandarin.

Optimists study English, pessimists study Mandarin, realists study M16.