Decimal separator

Britain and the United States are two of the few places in the world that use a period to indicate the decimal place. The decimal separator is the symbol used to designate the position of the decimal between the digits of a number. I am trying to change the decimal separator from a comma to a full stop.

The symbol used to separate the integer part of a decimal number from its fractional part is called the decimal point. I use the Spotlight calculator a lot but since the upgrade to OS X Mavericks the decimal pointer has changed to a .

Unicode decimal separator () are often used to showthe decimal place in a displayed number. I have a problem under Open Office Writer and Calc: Upon pressing on decimal point (numeric keypad) a comma is entered instead.

Dec 2014 This article is no longer actively maintained by Tableau. The ability to easily switch number formatting from the US standard of using a dot . Decimal point characterReturns the character used to represent the decimal radix separator. French setting. So the decimal separator is comma and not dot. Other apps on my PC give me a full stop when I press the decimal separator key on the numeric keyboard. Google tells me there is no way to change the decimal separator in Mac Excel 2004. I use QLocale to format numbers that are then exported as a CSV file. Every new Quicken file (not account) I create has comma as decimal separator.