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ToWords in Spanish

ToWords in Spanish

ToWords in Spanish

(OP)
I need to be able to do towords in Spanish.  Googled this and all indications are that if you get a Spanish version of Crystal, you get Spanish ToWords.

I downloaded a demo of Crystal 2008 and installed it, choosing spanish as the language.  Went fine.  But when I create a simple report with a formula for "towords" in it, the words are in English.  I've set the product locale to Spanish, but no change.

I've found all the crtowords_en.dll on my computer and renamed to .old.  No good, must be coming from somewhere else??

At any rate, I just need to FORCE it to use crtowords_es.dll, which did install, along with all the other possible languages.  Anyone know how to do that????  We will need to print some checks in Spanish.  TIA

RE: ToWords in Spanish

What you could do is take the English and use REPLACE to substitute the corresponding Spanish name for each number.  Something like

CODE --> @StageA

Replace(@numberName, "one", "uno")
Assuming "uno" is the correct word, I don't know Spanish and I'm surprised that Crystal can't adjust.
You can do a hierarchy of replacements, use @StageA as input for another formula field that replaces "two" etc.  You can also 'nest' replace statements within each other, e.g

CODE --> @StageAA

Replace ( (Replace(@numberName, "two", "duo"), "one", "uno")

yinyang Madawc Williams (East Anglia, UK).  Using Windows XP & Crystal 10 yinyang

RE: ToWords in Spanish

(OP)
We considered that, but it does get kind of tricky.  It's not as "clean" as it should be -- I think it would be obvious that it was a clumsy translation.  Three hundred, for example, is tresciento, not tres cien.  But one hundred is just ciento, if I remember correctly.  You might say "un ciento" or even "uno ciento" and be understood, but not unociento, I don't think.  So, you could do a lookup table, or a replace function, and be *understood*, but it wouldn't be professional.  And these are for professional checks, so I'm hoping to do better than that.

The thing that gets me is that there are a ton of references to towords in spanish from crystal, but I can't figure out how to get crystal to point to that instead of the english version.  Tried the BO support site but every time I try to open a help subject I get site errors and can't read anything.  rrrrrr.  (happens in IE and FF both).

Thanks anyway on that.  Anyone else know??  

RE: ToWords in Spanish

Just do the following:

1. Go to C:\Program Files\Common Files\Business Objects\2.7\Bin\
2. Rename crtowords_en.dll to crtowords_xx.dll
3. Rename crtowords_es.dll to crtowords_en.dll

And that's it!!

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