Re:قلب: a non-ASCII programming language written in Arabic
by probably_wrong on Friday October 25, 2019 @04:17AM
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This is the bane of my existence when working with Excel. I'm spending too much time figuring out that "RAND" (which is what you'd find in search) is "ZUFALLSZAHL" in German Excel (which I use at work) and "ALEATORIO" in Spanish (which I use at home).
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Re:قلب: a non-ASCII programming language written in Arabic
by jaclaz on Friday October 25, 2019 @06:09AM
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JFYI, what I often do for those functions I am not already familiar with both in Italian and English (it doesn't work for really all functions) is to use the English original I find in (the English version of) Spread32 (an extremely small Excel compatible program):
then save the worksheet and re-open it with the Italian Excel, since the functions are actually saved internally as an "ordinal" (or whatever) and interpreted by Excel in its "local" language.
Re:قلب: a non-ASCII programming language written in Arabic
by rovr138 on Friday October 25, 2019 @04:37AM
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Is this on VBA or for formulas too?
Re:قلب: a non-ASCII programming language written in Arabic
by jaclaz on Friday October 25, 2019 @06:16AM
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It is for spreadsheet functions, VBA is English only, but there are anyway some quirks, as an example inside VBA the decimal point (separator) is actually a point whilst /as an example in Italian) the decimal separator is a comma, and this creates often the need to convert back and forth the numbers.