--- /Metaphone.java	2023-07-05 03:04:20.634041767 +0200
+++ /Codec-1/src/java/org/apache/commons/codec/language/Metaphone.java	2023-07-05 03:04:20.638041767 +0200
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@
     /**
      * The max code length for metaphone is 4
      */
-    private int maxCodeLen = 4 ;
+private  short  maxCodeLen = 4 ;
 
     /**
      * Creates an instance of the Metaphone encoder
