Translating Numbers to Words

Money amounts often must be printed in word form and/or numeric form. The most familiar example of this might be when printing the amount on a check or a receipt. The words are usually considered to be the legal expression of the amount, making accuracy essential. For example, in German, a check for €125.67 would be printed as “Eins-Zwei-Fünf Euros und Sechs-Sieben Cents.” In English, $125.67 would translate as One Hundred Twenty Five Dollars and Sixty Seven cents (or One Hundred Twenty Five Dollars and 67/100 Cents, depending on the format used for the printing of checks).

The Number To Words feature supports translation of numerals into words in multiple languages. By default, OPERA Cloud expresses numbers in English words.

If the Profile Language function is not being used, and the base language for the property is not English, you can use the Number To Words feature to translate the numbers into words. The translations also provided for words like “Dollars,” ”Cents,” and “and,” which might be required in expressions of written amounts.

Reports that reference a profile language, such as folios and receipts, automatically select the appropriate translation for the particular instance of the report, if available. When printing checks in Commissions Processing, the language associated with the bank account determines which language is used for the check amount written in words.

The Number to Words translation is literal (number for number) except for languages indicated by an X in the Grammatical column of the following table where grammatical idiosyncrasies are accommodated. For example, 1234.50 would be rendered as One Two Three Four Dollars and Five Zero Cents where the rendering is literal. Where a grammatical translation is provided, the amount is rendered as One Thousand Three Hundred and Four Dollars and Fifty Cents.

Language

Language Code

Grammatical

AR

Arabic

 

BG

Bulgarian

 

CA

Catalan

 

CS

Czechoslovakian

 

DA

Danish

 

DE

German

 

E

English

X

EL

Greek

 

EN

English (ISO)

 

ES

Spanish

 

ET

Estonian

 

EU

Basque

 

FA

Persian

 

FI

Finnish

 

FR

French

 

GL

Galician

 

HR

Croatian

 

HU

Hungarian

 

IT

Italian

 

JA

Japanese

 

KO

Korean

 

LT

Lithuanian

 

LV

Latvian

 

NL

Dutch

 

NO

Norwegian

 

PL

Polish

X

PT

Portuguese

 

PT-BR

Brazilian Portuguese

 

RO

Romanian

 

RU

Russian

 

SK

Slovakian

 

SL

Slovanian

 

SV

Swedish

 

TH

Thai

 

TR

Turkish

X

UK

Ukranian

 

VI

Vietnamese

X

ZH-S

Chinese Simplified

 

ZH-T

Chinese Traditional