Spelling numbers in Arabic is harder than it looks: the four rules behind tafqeet

Most "number to words" libraries translate digits one at a time. That works in English and fails in Arabic on the very first cheque. I maintain an Arabic number-to-words converter (تفقيط) used for invoices and cheques, and these are the rules that broke every naive version I wrote. 1. Units come before tens English says twenty-five. Arabic says... Weiterlesen