# 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:

# ADR-0001 - Use Architectural Decision Records

## Status

- ACCEPTED on 2023-12-01

## Context

In a distributed team with many subteams, the best solution to communicate decisions is to use a format accessible by everyone in charge of development.

We use *Specification* and *Discovery* documents stored in Google Drive, but they present some downsides:

0.591 responseHeadersStart
0.675 responseHeadersEnd
0.676 responseBodyStart
0.679 responseBodyEnd
0.679 connectionReleased
0.680 callEnd
REQUEST 2 (pooled connection)
0.000 callStart
0.001 connectionAcquired
0.001 requestHeadersStart
0.001 requestHeadersEnd
0.002 responseHeadersStart
0.082 responseHeadersEnd
0.082 responseBodyStart
0.082 responseBodyEnd
0.083 connectionReleased
0.083 callEnd
```

      }
    }

    // Testing multibyte escape sequences
    assertEscaping(e, "%00", '\u0000'); // nul
    assertEscaping(e, "%7F", '\u007f'); // del
    assertEscaping(e, "%C2%80", '\u0080'); // xx-00010,x-000000
    assertEscaping(e, "%DF%BF", '\u07ff'); // xx-11111,x-111111
    assertEscaping(e, "%E0%A0%80", '\u0800'); // xxx-0000,x-100000,x-00,0000
    assertEscaping(e, "%EF%BF%BF", '\uffff'); // xxx-1111,x-111111,x-11,1111

    assertUnescaped(e, '.');
    assertUnescaped(e, '*');

    assertEscaping(e, "%00", '\u0000'); // nul
    assertEscaping(e, "%7F", '\u007f'); // del
    assertEscaping(e, "%C2%80", '\u0080'); // xx-00010,x-000000
    assertEscaping(e, "%DF%BF", '\u07ff'); // xx-11111,x-111111
    assertEscaping(e, "%E0%A0%80", '\u0800'); // xxx-0000,x-100000,x-00,0000
    assertEscaping(e, "%EF%BF%BF", '\uffff'); // xxx-1111,x-111111,x-11,1111

    assertUnescaped(e, '.');
    assertUnescaped(e, '*');

    assertEscaping(e, "%00", '\u0000'); // nul
    assertEscaping(e, "%7F", '\u007f'); // del
    assertEscaping(e, "%C2%80", '\u0080'); // xx-00010,x-000000
    assertEscaping(e, "%DF%BF", '\u07ff'); // xx-11111,x-111111
    assertEscaping(e, "%E0%A0%80", '\u0800'); // xxx-0000,x-100000,x-00,0000
    assertEscaping(e, "%EF%BF%BF", '\uffff'); // xxx-1111,x-111111,x-11,1111

      }
    }

    // Testing multibyte escape sequences
    assertEscaping(e, "%00", '\u0000'); // nul
    assertEscaping(e, "%7F", '\u007f'); // del
    assertEscaping(e, "%C2%80", '\u0080'); // xx-00010,x-000000
    assertEscaping(e, "%DF%BF", '\u07ff'); // xx-11111,x-111111
    assertEscaping(e, "%E0%A0%80", '\u0800'); // xxx-0000,x-100000,x-00,0000
    assertEscaping(e, "%EF%BF%BF", '\uffff'); // xxx-1111,x-111111,x-11,1111

  /**
   * Maximum allowed false positive probability of detecting a hash flooding attack given random
   * input.
   */
  @VisibleForTesting static final double HASH_FLOODING_FPP = 0.001;

  /**
   * Maximum allowed length of a hash table bucket before falling back to a j.u.HashMap based
   * implementation. Experimentally determined.
   */

* Use American English spelling in code, comments, and documentation (e.g., "color" not "colour", "initialize" not "initialise"). See [ADR-0009](architecture/standards/0009-use-american-english.md) for details.

        .testEquals();
  }

  /**
   * The maximum allowed probability of falsely detecting a hash flooding attack if the input is
   * randomly generated.
   */
  private static final double HASH_FLOODING_FPP = 0.001;

  public void testReuseBuilderReducingHashTableSizeWithPowerOfTwoTotalElements() {
    ImmutableSet.Builder<Object> builder = ImmutableSet.builderWithExpectedSize(6);
    builder.add(0);