fix: solving use locale with case conversions code smell

src/main/java/com/github/javafaker/Color.java

@@ -17,8 +17,9 @@ public String hex() {
 
     public String hex(boolean includeHashSign) {
         String hexString = faker.random().hex(6);
-        if(includeHashSign)
+        if(includeHashSign) {
             return "#" + hexString;
+        }
         return hexString;
     }
 }

src/main/java/com/github/javafaker/Company.java

@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 
 import java.util.ArrayList;
 import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Locale;
 
 import static org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils.join;
 
@@ -79,7 +80,7 @@ public String url() {
     }
 
     private String domainName(){
-        return StringUtils.deleteWhitespace(name().toLowerCase().replaceAll(",", "").replaceAll("'", ""));
+        return StringUtils.deleteWhitespace(name().toLowerCase(Locale.ROOT).replaceAll(",", "").replaceAll("'", ""));
     }
 
     private String domainSuffix() {

src/main/java/com/github/javafaker/File.java

@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 package com.github.javafaker;
 
+import java.util.Locale;
+
 public class File {
     private final Faker faker;
 
@@ -22,7 +24,7 @@ public String fileName() {
     public String fileName(String dirOrNull, String nameOrNull, String extensionOrNull, String separatorOrNull) {
         final String sep = separatorOrNull == null ? System.getProperty("file.separator") : separatorOrNull;
         final String dir = dirOrNull == null ? faker.internet().slug() : dirOrNull;
-        final String name = nameOrNull == null ? faker.lorem().word().toLowerCase() : nameOrNull;
+        final String name = nameOrNull == null ? faker.lorem().word().toLowerCase(Locale.ROOT) : nameOrNull;
         final String ext = extensionOrNull == null ? extension() : extensionOrNull;
         return dir + sep + name + "." + ext;
     }

src/main/java/com/github/javafaker/Finance.java

@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
 import java.util.HashMap;
 import java.util.List;
 import java.util.Map;
+import java.util.Locale;
 
 public class Finance {
     private final Faker faker;
@@ -20,7 +21,7 @@ protected Finance(Faker faker) {
             createCountryCodeToBasicBankAccountNumberPatternMap();
 
     public String creditCard(CreditCardType creditCardType) {
-        final String key = String.format("finance.credit_card.%s", creditCardType.toString().toLowerCase());
+        final String key = String.format("finance.credit_card.%s", creditCardType.toString().toLowerCase(Locale.ROOT));
         String value = faker.fakeValuesService().resolve(key, this, faker);
         final String template = faker.numerify(value);
 
@@ -84,7 +85,7 @@ private static String calculateIbanChecksum(String countryCode, String basicBank
         String basis = basicBankAccountNumber + countryCode + "00";
 
         StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
-        char[] characters = basis.toLowerCase().toCharArray();
+        char[] characters = basis.toLowerCase(Locale.ROOT).toCharArray();
         for (char c : characters) {
             if (Character.isLetter(c)) {
                 sb.append(String.valueOf((c - 'a') + 10));

src/main/java/com/github/javafaker/Internet.java

@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
 import java.util.Arrays;
 import java.util.List;
 import java.util.UUID;
+import java.util.Locale;
 
 import static org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils.join;
 import static org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils.stripAccents;
@@ -43,7 +44,7 @@ public String domainName() {
     }
 
     public String domainWord() {
-        return FakerIDN.toASCII(faker.name().lastName().toLowerCase().replaceAll("'", ""));
+        return FakerIDN.toASCII(faker.name().lastName().toLowerCase(Locale.ROOT).replaceAll("'", ""));
     }
 
     public String domainSuffix() {
@@ -55,7 +56,7 @@ public String url() {
                 "www",
                 ".",
                 FakerIDN.toASCII(
-                        faker.name().firstName().toLowerCase().replaceAll("'", "") +
+                        faker.name().firstName().toLowerCase(Locale.ROOT).replaceAll("'", "") +
                                 "-" +
                                 domainWord()
                 ),
@@ -85,7 +86,9 @@ public String avatar() {
      */
     public String image() {
         String[] dimension = StringUtils.split(faker.fakeValuesService().resolve("internet.image_dimension", this, faker), 'x');
-        if (dimension.length == 0) return "";
+        if (dimension.length == 0) {
+            return "";
+        }
         return image(
                 Integer.valueOf(StringUtils.trim(dimension[0])), Integer.valueOf(StringUtils.trim(dimension[1])),
                 faker.bool().bool(), null);

src/main/java/com/github/javafaker/Name.java

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 package com.github.javafaker;
 
 import org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils;
+import java.util.Locale;
 
 public class Name {
 
@@ -122,9 +123,9 @@ public String title() {
     public String username() {
 
         String username = StringUtils.join(
-                firstName().replaceAll("'", "").toLowerCase(),
+                firstName().replaceAll("'", "").toLowerCase(Locale.ROOT),
                 ".",
-                lastName().replaceAll("'", "").toLowerCase()
+                lastName().replaceAll("'", "").toLowerCase(Locale.ROOT)
         );
 
         return StringUtils.deleteWhitespace(username);

src/main/java/com/github/javafaker/Number.java

@@ -27,7 +27,9 @@ public int randomDigitNotZero() {
      * @see Number#numberBetween(long, long) 
      */
     public int numberBetween(int min, int max) {
-        if (min == max) return min;
+        if (min == max){
+            return min;x    
+        }
 
         int value = decimalBetween(min,max).setScale(0, BigDecimal.ROUND_HALF_DOWN).intValue();
         return value == max ? value - 1 : value;
@@ -42,7 +44,9 @@ public int numberBetween(int min, int max) {
      * @param max exclusive (unless min == max)
      */
     public long numberBetween(long min, long max) {
-        if (min == max) return min;
+        if (min == max) {
+            return min;
+            }
 
         long value = decimalBetween(min, max).setScale(0, BigDecimal.ROUND_HALF_DOWN).longValue();
         return value == max ? value - 1 : value;

src/main/java/com/github/javafaker/service/FakeValuesService.java

@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
 import java.util.logging.Logger;
 import java.util.regex.Matcher;
 import java.util.regex.Pattern;
+import java.util.Locale;
 
 public class FakeValuesService {
 
@@ -157,7 +158,9 @@ public String fetchString(String key) {
     @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
     public String safeFetch(String key, String defaultIfNull) {
         Object o = fetchObject(key);
-        if (o == null) return defaultIfNull;
+        if (o == null) {
+            return defaultIfNull;
+        }
         if (o instanceof List) {
             List<String> values = (List<String>) o;
             if (values.size() == 0) {
@@ -456,7 +459,7 @@ private String classNameToYamlName(Object current) {
     private String javaNameToYamlName(String expression) {
         return expression.replaceAll("([A-Z])", "_$1")
                 .substring(1)
-                .toLowerCase();
+                .toLowerCase(Locale.ROOT);
     }