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I have the Regional Formats set to "English (Ireland)" in my home system. However, this produces numbers with a coma as a thousand separator in all programmes dependent on this setting, e.g.:

1,234,567.89

Ireland (as most other countries in the world) is a signatory to the International System of Units. Therefore the thousands separator should be the space character, e.g.:

1 234 567.89

How can I change the thousands separator to a space?

Luís de Sousa
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I don't find any locale in Ubuntu which combines space as the thousands separator and dot as the decimal point. Maybe you want to file a bug about it.

Anyway, you can fix it for yourself by modifying the en_IE locale. As regards the LC_NUMERIC data it copies them from the en_GB locale, so one way to fix it is to edit the en_GB locale definition file and regenerate the Irish locale:

sudo sed -ri 's/^(thousands_sep +)"<U002C>"/\1"<U0020>"/' /usr/share/i18n/locales/en_GB
sudo locale-gen en_IE.UTF-8
Gunnar Hjalmarsson
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