Re: [libreoffice-users] a LibO/Calc problem (SOLVED)

On Mon, 13 Jan 2014 13:10:03 +0200
Pertti Rönnberg <ptjr@elisanet.fi> wrote:

> Paul's answer is interesting from another point of view also -- he 
> changes the decimal sign from a comma to a period and replaces the 
> periods replaced by commas to get the "correct" thousand separator.
Well, you might be able to just change your locale settings to allow
the different format, but I assumed you didn't want to do that. As I
understand it, that can only be changed system-wide, not per document.

> Another page "Decimal and Thousand Separators" says: "Great Britain
> and the United States are two of the few places in the world that use
> a period to indicate the decimal place.
It's also pretty common in computer circles (programming, data
interchange formats, etc) to use a period for a decimal separator.

Paul

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