Add n2words

[forzagreen]

n2words converts numbers to a human readable string. As of today, it supports 26 languages.

Examples:

n2words(123)   // 'one hundred and twenty-three'
n2words(-1.5)  // 'minus one point five'

n2words(123, {lang: 'fr'})  // 'cent vingt-trois'
n2words(123, {lang: 'es'})  // 'ciento veintitrés'
n2words(123, {lang: 'ar'})  // 'مائة و ثلاثة و عشرون'

I put it under the Humanize section. I could also go under Natural language processing.

[romankurnovskii]

What is the advantage over https://www.npmjs.com/package/to-words ?

[forzagreen]

@romankurnovskii n2words supports much more languages: 27 vs 9.

[romankurnovskii]

I see 18, so this is a question, if the issue is only in amount of languages why not to add translation or there are some more features? I use this maintained package, just want to know if there is a good reason to look at something new

[forzagreen]

@romankurnovskii

• No, there are only 9 languages. The 18 are "locales". For example, there are 10 locales for english (en-US, en-GB,...).
• Adding a new language is not just a matter of "translation". Each language has its own algorithm.
• n2words has much larger language coverage, i.e. it has major spoken languages that to-words doesn't have: Spanish, Arabic, Chinese, Russian, German...
• to-words seems to be adapted more for currencies.

[romankurnovskii]

forzagreen

thank you @forzagreen for explanation

[sindresorhus]

The package looks fine, but I don't think it's a common need. I try to curate the most common things users will need here. For this package, the user can easily search for it if they need it.