[abdullahkhalids]

I am from Pakistan. At least in South Asia, there are english characters everywhere because the infrastructure is primarily designed for the rich english-speaking classes, while the poor are left behind. A serious political problem.

I have seen many non-english speaking people interact with computers in English, both poor people and old folks in rich families who don't know English. They kinda recognize the shape of words, or they go by icons. They don't actually know the meaning of anything. They can only do a limited set of pre-memorized actions. Scamming them is easy. If they get stuck, they need to beg someone to help them.

Again, I will say this. There are two problems here. One for users and one for developers. Users must be able to read in their own language. Developers must be able to develop in their own language.

[wongarsu]

> They kinda recognize the shape of words, or they go by icons. They don't actually know the meaning of anything.

That's kind of true of a lot of English computer users too.

But more to the point, what you are advocating for is translating the interface. Which I think nobody is against, and which is a common thing to do (at least for countries people care about, which sadly excludes a lot of the poorer parts of the world). The username prompt should read "username" in Pakistani. That doesn't automatically mean it has to accept non-ascii input too, as long as you accept unicode in the display name.

> Developers must be able to develop in their own language.

I learned coding in Pascal before I learned that "if" is an English word. English helps, but in the end keywords in programming languages and shell commands are only mnemonics. Knowing the translation helps but isn't necessary. What's important are documentation, tutorials and other resources in a language the developer understands.