NEWS

2012-12-06: version 0.9.5 release 2
    - Python 3 port of the OpenOffice.org/LibreOffice extension for LibreOffice 4.0

2012-10-09: version 0.9.5
    - new modules: Latvian, Lithuanian
    - bug fixes: Spanish, French, Portuguese
    - Java sources

2010-11-03: version 0.9.4
    - data/vi_VN.sor: new Vietnamese module

    - numbertext.jar: patch to set default UTF-8 encoding by Marcin Stępniak

    - Russian module:
      - fix for 2 (subunits of EUR, GBP, USD),
      - add currency UAH, reports and patch by wasow at extensions ooo

2010-08-03: version 0.9.3
    - fix rounding difference of Calc and Numbertext functions
    - Indonesian module by Eko Prasetiyo
    - remove "zero subunit" from Moneytext outputs of Greek, English,
      French, Spanish, Portuguese and Turkish modules.
    - fix missing zero in Afrikaans, Swedish and Turkish Moneytext
      descriptions.

2010-06-07: version 0.9.2
    - fix Russian module

2010-05-28: version 0.9.1
    - new module: English with Indian numbering system (en-IN)
      (lakh = 100.000, crore = 10.000.000)

    - other fixes (see Changelog)

2010-05-20: version 0.9
    - reference implementation for Swedish: 
	- cardinal and ordinal numbers with gender
	- ordinal abbreviations with gender
	- year
	- gender parameters at currencies

    - reference implementation for Roman numerals:
      Roman_2.sor: overlined with bars, also historical forms:

      $ python soroside.py ../data/Roman_2.sor  38000

      X̅X̅X̅V̅I̅I̅I̅

      $ python soroside.py ../data/Roman_2.sor  30000000

      |C̅C̅C̅|

      $ python soroside.py ../data/Roman_2.sor -p historical 38000

               ↂↂↂↁↀↀↀ

2010-04-26: version 0.8.2
    - fixes for Russian
    - ordinal number support in Hebrew
    - French translation

2010-04-22: version 0.8.1
    - bug fixes in Hebrew, Polish, Russian and Swedish modules

    - ordinal numbers in French and Thai

    - extended syntax in src/soroside.py tool (ranges with different steps):

    $ python src/soroside.py data/en_US.sor 0-10~5
    zero
    five
    ten

2010-04-19: version 0.8
    - new modules: he_HE from Alex Bodnaru, and hu_HU_2 (formal Hungarian)

    - ordinal number functions in en_US, de_DE and hu_HU modules

    - module fixes: th_TH, ru_RU

    - new command line tool "soros.py", features:

	- convert numbers and ranges:
	    $ python src/soroside.py data/en_US.sor 1 5-7 10
	    one
	    five
	    six
	    seven
	    ten
	    
	- prefix (function) support:
	    $ python src/soroside.py -p ord2 data/en_US.sor 1-4
	    1st
	    2nd
	    3rd
	    4th
	    
	- file output:
	    $ python src/soroside.py -o nums data/en_US.sor 100-200
	    $ head -3 nums
	    one hundred
	    one hundred and one
	    one hundred and two

    - new convention: "help" item in some modules:
	$ python src/soroside.py -o nums data/en_US.sor help
	Functions:
	 ord (ordinal numbers, eg. "first")
	ord2 (ordinal abbreviations, eg. "1st")
	Extra modules:
	en_US_2 (subunit as decimal fraction: "USD 20.25" -> twenty and 25/100 dollars)

    - bug fixes:
	- default Western language in calls without language parameter in OOo
	- fix output conversion of \$, \(, \) and \|
	- fix boundary recognition in $n|$() (only $()|$() was good in the
	  last versions)
	- etc. (see ChangeLog)

2009-11-13: version 0.7.1
    - bug fixes (af_ZA, it_IT, nl_NL, th_TH), see ChangeLog

2009-11-10: version 0.7
    - new modules:
      da-DK	Danish from László Németh
      tr-TR	Turkish from Ramdem at OpenOffice.org Wiki

    - bug fixes (see Changelog)

2009-09-04: version 0.6.1
    - fix English decimals

2009-09-03: version 0.6
    - new modules:
      fr-BE	Belgian French from Olivier Ronez
      fr-CH	Swiss French from Olivier Ronez
      lb-LU	Luxenbourgish from Michel Weimerskirch
      sh-RS	Serbian (Latin) from Goran Rakić 
      sr-RS	Serbian (Cyrillic) from Goran Rakić 

    - short language code (language code without country code) support
      in language code argument of NUMBERTEXT and MONEYTEXT functions
      
    - using short language code (and an available module in the same
      language) for missing language modules specified by long
      language codes (language code + country code + optional variant name)

    - fixes (see ChangeLog)

2009-08-20: version 0.5
    - new modules:
      ja-JP	Japanese
      ja-JP-2	Japanese (formal)
      ko-KP	North-Korean
      ko-KR	South-Korean
      Hung	Old Hungarian Script

    - web: add new modules and Chinese Suzhou numerals
    
    - fixes

2009-08-10: version 0.4
    - fixes

2009-08-09: version 0.3
    - NUMBERTEXT and MONEYTEXT specification 1.1

    - new language modules:

	- Africaans
	- financial Chinese (simplified)
        - Portuguese
	- Brazilian Portuguese

    - extended currency support for English, French and Spanish

    - Improved OpenOffice.org extension:

      - MS Excel (XLS) export-import support
      - standard XCU resource file for localization
    
    - fixes
    
2009-07-25: version 0.2

    - 11 new languages: Catalan, Czech, Finnish, French, Greek, 
      Polish, Romanian, Russian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish.

    - improved currency handling for all language modules

    - new home page: http://NUMBERTEXT.org

    - improved Soros language specification:
	  - left zero deletion, trimming and removing double spaces
	    switched on only by the new  __numbertext__ directive 
	  - nested recursive calls
	  - escaped metacharacters
	  - optional semicolon, as command separator
	  - in-line comments
    
    - new Python and JavaScript Soros interpreters, testing environment

    - NOTE: the syntax of the NUMBERTEXT and MONEYTEXT will be changed
      in the next version, according to the new NUMBERTEXT/MONEYTEXT
      specification (a new second argument, the number of the decimal places
      will be added). See in OpenOffice.org Issue 103746.