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Colors, localized.
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I mean in code. Not sure how many programming languages are gonna accept "colour". Or maybe they do and I am wrong, tbf I never thought about it till now.
When it actually comes to the English language that's a different story.
I don't know any language where "colo[u]r" is a keyword, or a lexer-level entity tbh, so I'm not sure there would be any difference. Anywhere you can name a variable "color", you can name it "colour". C++ allows you to explicitly make one an alias to the other, for example.
That said, I've seen a number of BBCode parsers need to take both "[color="] and "[colour=]". Really, we need code and programming languages in general to be less American. It's 2023 already and in many programming languages I have to name my accounting variables "ano" (butthole) instead of "año" (year).