numbers in words

[Nikos Charonitakis]

hi Morten

I played a bit with scheme file and replacing english strings with
greek words is ok for many cases but  not for all.
I ll check it further and if  it is usable then i ll send a greek
version here. Is it possible gnucash to call the greek file (if the
system language is greek) or the user has to edit the original?

Nikos

On 5/5/05, Morten Cools <morten at cools.no> wrote:
> Hi again
> 
> As far as I've been able to tell, the stuff concerning numbers to words
> are hardcoded in number-to-words.scm, so it would require a patch to
> change this behavior.
> 
> The problem is that this code, as far as I can tell, is based on the
> ability to prefix small numbers to bigger numbers in order to generate
> multiples of the bigger numbers. E.g. to write 200 with words it
> effectively outputs "two" "hundred". As I understand it, you have own
> words for 200, 300, etc, that cannot be generated in the aforementioned
> manner? Correct me if I am wrong!
> 
> The code in question is interpreted, and not compiled, so it should be
> possible to alter it without rebuilding Gnucash. However, I assume this
> would require replacing word for word the English words with Greek, in
> order to not screw up the functionality of the existing code.
> 
> So the short answer is, no, it cannot be localized in a trivial manner,
> unless the language has the same number-to-word structure as English.
> 
> As for rewriting the module, I hardly know anything about Scheme, so I
> won't be able to help you there...
> 
> Morten
> 
> On Thu, 2005-05-05 at 02:53 +0300, Nikos Charonitakis wrote:
> > Another issue that i found for Greek language (also i think that this
> > an issue for other languages) is that when i try to print a check
> > numbers expressed in words are only for English language.
> > example:
> > 1000 $ -> one thousand $
> > the second part should be localized.
> > Where is the code responsible for this trasnformation?
> > Can be localized?
> >
> > Thanks in advance
> >
> > Nikos
> >
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