# ADR-0009 - Use American English

## Status

- ACCEPTED on 2025-11-24

## Context

Gradle is an international open-source project with contributors from around the world. English is the primary language for code, comments, documentation, and communication, but there are variations in English spelling and terminology, specifically American English vs. British English.

Inconsistency in spelling conventions can lead to several issues:

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    /**
     * Converts validation messages to a localized string representation for API responses.
     * Uses the request locale if available, otherwise defaults to English.
     *
     * @param validationMessagesLambda lambda function that adds validation messages
     * @return concatenated string of localized validation messages separated by spaces
     */

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        final Collection<String> values = queryMap.values();
        if (values.stream().anyMatch(s -> s.startsWith(filetypeField))) {
            final ResourceBundle resources = ResourceBundle.getBundle("fess_label", Locale.ENGLISH);
            final String[] fileTypes = ComponentUtil.getFileTypeHelper().getTypes();
            for (final String fileType : fileTypes) {
                final String value = filetypeField + ":" + fileType;

    }

    @Test
    public void test_determineAlias_returnsEmpty() {
        // Test with various locales
        OptionalThing<String> result = provider.determineAlias(Locale.ENGLISH);
        assertFalse(result.isPresent());

        result = provider.determineAlias(Locale.JAPANESE);
        assertFalse(result.isPresent());

        result = provider.determineAlias(Locale.GERMAN);

     * @return the searcher name
     */
    public String getName() {
        if (name == null) {
            name = StringUtil.decamelize(this.getClass().getSimpleName().replace("Searcher", StringUtil.EMPTY)).toLowerCase(Locale.ENGLISH);
        }
        return name;
    }

    /**
     * Executes a search operation with the specified parameters.
     * This method must be implemented by concrete searcher classes.
     *

Wir begrüßen Pull-Requests für Ihre Sprache.

### Übersetzungen

- [English](../../README.md)
- [日本語 (Japanese)](../ja/README.md)
- [简体中文 (Simplified Chinese)](../zh-CN/README.md)
- [Español (Spanish)](../es/README.md)
- [Português (Brazilian Portuguese)](../pt-BR/README.md)

我们欢迎您的语言的 Pull Request。

### 翻译

- [English](../../README.md)
- [日本語 (Japanese)](../ja/README.md)
- [Español (Spanish)](../es/README.md)
- [Português (Brazilian Portuguese)](../pt-BR/README.md)
- [Français (French)](../fr/README.md)

    if [ "x$pidpath" != "x" ]; then
        fess_parms="$fess_parms -Dfess.pidfile=$pidpath"
    fi

    # Make sure we don't use any predefined locale, as we check some exception message strings and rely on english language
    # As those strings are created by the OS, they are dependent on the configured locale
    LANG=en_US.UTF-8
    LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8

    export HOSTNAME=`hostname -s`

    cd "$FESS_HOME"