[ANNOUNCEMENT] Numbers_Words-0.18.0 (beta) Released.

The new PEAR package Numbers_Words-0.18.0 (beta) has been released at http://pear.php.net/.

Release notes
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* Fixed bug #19453: Incorrect spelling of Hungarian numbers [kouber]
* Fixed bug #19543: Better handling of decimal mark and thousands separators [kouber]
* Fixed bug #19855: Do not emit E_NOTICE when calling toWords() statically [cweiske]
* Fixed pl unicode [Jakub Roszkiewicz]
* Fixed ru_RU currency codes [Vital Leshchyk]
* Fixed tr_TR unicode [Shahriyar Imanov]
* Added en_IN - Indian English [Abhinav Nayak]
* Added lv - Latvian [Andrius]
* Added ro_RO - Romanian [Bogdan Stancescu]
* Added ua - Ukrainian [Vital Leshchyk]
* Unify locale loading code [cweiske]
* Use PEAR class-to-filename convention [cweiske]

This release changes class names and locations of locale files.
This is a backwards compatibility break.

Package Info
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With Numbers_Words class you can convert numbers
written in arabic digits to words in several languages.
You can convert an integer between -infinity and infinity.
If your system does not support such long numbers you can
call Numbers_Words::toWords() with just a string.

With the Numbers_Words::toCurrency($num, $locale, 'USD') method
you can convert a number (decimal and fraction part) to words with currency name. 

The following languages are supported:
    * bg (Bulgarian) by Kouber Saparev
    * cs (Czech) by Petr 'PePa' Pavel
    * de (German) by Piotr Klaban
    * dk (Danish) by Jesper Veggerby
    * en_100 (Donald Knuth system, English) by Piotr Klaban
    * en_GB (British English) by Piotr Klaban
    * en_US (American English) by Piotr Klaban
    * es (Spanish Castellano) by Xavier Noguer
    * es_AR (Argentinian Spanish) by Martin Marrese
    * et (Estonian) by Erkki Saarniit
    * fr (French) by Kouber Saparev
    * fr_BE (French Belgium) by Kouber Saparev and Philippe Bajoit
    * he (Hebrew) by Hadar Porat
    * hu_HU (Hungarian) by Nils Homp
    * id (Indonesian) by Ernas M. Jamil and Arif Rifai Dwiyanto
    * it_IT (Italian) by Filippo Beltramini and Davide Caironi
    * lt (Lithuanian) by Laurynas Butkus
    * nl (Dutch) by WHAM van Dinter
    * pl (Polish) by Piotr Klaban
    * pt_BR (Brazilian Portuguese) by Igor Feghali
    * ro_RO (Romanian) by Bogdan Stăncescu
    * ru (Russian) by Andrey Demenev
    * sv (Swedish) by Robin Ericsson
    * tr_TR (Turkish) by Shahriyar Imanov
    * ua (Ukrainian) by Andrey Demenev and Vital Leshchyk

Related Links
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Package home: http://pear.php.net/package/Numbers_Words
   Changelog: http://pear.php.net/package/Numbers_Words/download/0.18.0
    Download: http://download.pear.php.net/package/Numbers_Words-0.18.0.tgz

Authors
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Marcelo Subtil Marcal <[email protected]> (developer)
Xavier Noguer <[email protected]> (contributor)
A. Porat (contributor)
Igor Feghali <[email protected]> (lead)
Kouber Saparev <[email protected]> (lead)