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The new PEAR package Numbers_Words-0.16.2 (beta) has been released at http://pear.php.net/.

Release notes
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* Fixed bug #16435 (improper use of substr() in Polish extension);
* Fixed bug #16667 (wrong spelling of 40 in Hungarian extension) (Vlajos);
* Fixed bug #16733 (incorrect rounding of cents);
* Added optional dependency on Math_BigInteger;
* Improved unit tests (Daniel O'Connor).

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 Marcelo Subtil Marcal and Mario H.C.T.
* ru (Russian) by Andrey Demenev
* sv (Swedish) by Robin Ericsson

Related Links
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Package home: http://pear.php.net/package/Numbers_Words
Changelog: http://pear.php.net/package/Numbers_Words/download/0.16.2
Download: http://download.pear.php.net/package/Numbers_Words-0.16.2.tgz

Authors
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Marcelo Subtil Marcal <marcelo(a)smarcal.com> (developer)
Xavier Noguer <xnoguer.php(a)gmail.com> (contributor)
Hadar Porat (contributor)
Igor Feghali <ifeghali(a)php.net> (developer)
Kouber Saparev <kouber(a)php.net> (lead)