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Status Future consideration
Created by Guest
Created on Jun 18, 2025

Comma as decimal separator

In Europe everybody is familiar with the comma as decimal seperator. Please add the option in the settings to change the view and use the comma as decimal separator.
It prevents errors during data entry. Already saw some cut/paste error related with the point as decimal separator.

Idea priority Low
Needed By Quarter
  • Guest
    Sep 11, 2025

    To be considered in future releases relating to localization support. Most likely to be introduced as a new feature to allow selection of decimal separator regardless of user language settings.

  • Admin
    Michael Dunbar
    Jun 23, 2025

    Currently comma vs. period as decimal separator is tied to the language selected (eg. if french is selected as the user's language the separator changes to comma instead of period).

    I think this enhancement request should be modified to specifically ask for the language and the comma/period as decimal separator formatting to be separate settings so that user with their language set to English can still view numeric values with a comma as the decimal separator.