Numberings for selected languages

Numberer implementations are available for several selected European languages, and you can use these as a prototype to write your own.

In Saxon-PE/EE these numberers are used for the given languages only if the JAR file containing the ICU libraries is not available on the classpath. (This is a transitional arrangement for Saxon 9.6, to ease transition to ICU. This mechanism will probably be dropped in a later release.) These numberers are not built in with Saxon-HE, but are available as open source code, and it is possible to configure them by writing a subclass of LocalizerFactory and registering it with the Configuration.

The languages available are:

code	Language	Class
da	Danish	`net.sf.saxon.option.local.Numberer_da`
de	German	`net.sf.saxon.option.local.Numberer_de`
en	English	`net.sf.saxon.option.local.Numberer_en`
fr	French	`net.sf.saxon.option.local.Numberer_fr`
fr-BE	French (Belgium)	`net.sf.saxon.option.local.Numberer_frBE`
it	Italian	`net.sf.saxon.option.local.Numberer_it`
nl	Dutch	`net.sf.saxon.option.local.Numberer_nl`
nl-BE	Flemish (Belgium)	`net.sf.saxon.option.local.Numberer_nlBE`
sv	Swedish	`net.sf.saxon.option.local.Numberer_sv`

For English, the language codes en-x-hyphen and en-x-nohyphen can be used to control whether numbers in the range 21 to 99 are spelled out with hyphen or space as a separator ("thirty-one" versus "thirty one"). By default, a hyphen is used for ordinal numbers, while a space is used for cardinal numbers.