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The 'Amounts to Words' function in Report Designer correctly converts numeric amounts into words for languages like German, but for Arabic or Korean it silently falls back to English instead of translating.

Answer

This means the specific spellout rules for converting amounts into words for that particular currency-language combination simply aren't available — a third-party tool is used to perform this conversion, and not every currency-language combination is covered by it, which is why the output falls back to English for unsupported combinations rather than erroring outright. There's no configuration workaround for this; getting a specific missing combination added as a standard fix requires contacting IFS support with a case, and you would also need to supply the correct spellout rules for that specific language, since IFS itself doesn't maintain the full set of spellout rules for every possible language.

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