[kmymoney] [Bug 420321] New: 1000 based number to words grouping is not suitable for Korean language

[Shinjo Park]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=420321

            Bug ID: 420321
           Summary: 1000 based number to words grouping is not suitable
                    for Korean language
           Product: kmymoney
           Version: git (master)
          Platform: Other
                OS: Linux
            Status: REPORTED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
          Assignee: kmymoney-devel at kde.org
          Reporter: kde at peremen.name
  Target Milestone: ---

SUMMARY

According to plugins/checkprinting/numbertowords.cpp, the grouping of numbers
for conversion into human readable form is hard-coded into groups of 1000:
Thousand, Million, Billion. However this scale does not fit into numbers used
in Korean language, as numbers are grouped by 10000 (instead of 1000) and more
than billion (short scale) is often discussed as a monetary unit in Korean
language.

Let me give some example:
* 10,000 KRW should be converted into "일만원". We have a separate noun for
10,000, not calling them as an equivalent of "ten thousand".
* 3,000,000 KRW should be converted into "삼백만원", literally meaning 300 * 10000.
There is no equivalent word of "million", and we don't call them in "three
million".
* 200,000,000 KRW should be converted into "이억원". We have a separate noun for
100,000,000, not calling them as an equivalent of "two hundred million".
* When it comes to the budget of small to medium sized companies, more than
hundred billion KRW is not unheard of. At least numerals for 10^12 and 10^16 is
not unheard of in newspapers.

I don't know where and how to address this situation. The same 10000 base
grouping is also used in Chinese/Japanese language too. See also:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_numerals#Large_numbers

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