• 2From the Command Line
• 3Application Behaviour
• 4Previous Systems

Preference Pane

The decimal separator is set in Mac OS X in the System preferences, under Language & Region, Advanced settings. In this dialog, you can set:

• Format language
• Number grouping (thousands) separator
• Number decimal separator
• Currency grouping (thousands) separator
• Currency decimal separator

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These settings are stored in the preference file ~/Library/Preferences/.GlobalPreferences.plist, which you can access with this command:

The AppleLocale contains information about the Region, the Format Lanugage, and the Currency symbol. The AppleICUNumberSymbols contains information about the number separator.

The Region determines the default currency symbol. The Format Lanugage determines the default number separators. The currency symbol and number separators are only included in the .GlobalPreferences if they deviate from the default.

Reading the Settings

In the following example, the Locale was set to Netherlands Region, English formatting, US dollar currency:

And in the following example, the grouping (thousands) separator was set to a space, and the decimal separator is set to a dot:

Writing the Settings

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In the following example, the Locale will be set to Netherlands Region, English formatting, US dollar currency:

And in the following example, the grouping (thousands) separator will be set to a dot, and the decimal separator is set to a comma:

Application Behaviour

All applications need to be quit and restarted before changes take effect. It is not necessary to log out or reboot the computer.

Calculator

Apple's Calculator, simply uses the standard values as described above.

Script Editor (AppleScript)

Open the Script Editor, and run this small AppleScript:

In recent versions of OS X, it simple follows the conventions set in the preference pane. Up to Mac OS 10.5, all I ever got was a dot (.). However, this may be a quirk in my measurements at the time.

Microsoft Excel

Both Microsoft Excel, as well as Apple's Numbers (another database program), seem to use the decimal separator as set the preference pane.

However, in case the decimal separator is a comma, a formula like MAX(1,2) become ambiguous: does it mean the Maximum of 1 and 2, or the maximum of 1.20? Both Excel and Number change the formula argument separator to a semicolon (;), but their behaviour is different. In particular, Excel behaves unexpectedly.

Language & Region Setting				Numbers behaviour			Excel behaviour
Region	Format language	Grouping separator	Decimal separator	Decimal separator	Formula separator	CSV delimiter	Decimal separator	Formula separator	CSV delimiter
Any	English	comma	dot	dot	comma	comma	dot	comma	comma
Any	English	space	dot	dot	comma	comma	dot	comma	comma
Any	English	dot	comma	comma	semicolon	comma	comma	semicolon	semicolon
Any	Dutch	comma	dot	dot	comma	comma	dot	semicolon	semicolon
Any	Dutch	space	dot	dot	comma	comma	dot	semicolon	semicolon
Any	Dutch	dot	comma	comma	semicolon	comma	comma	semicolon	semicolon

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It seems that:

• Excel both takes the decimal separator, as well as the default decimal separator for a given language into account, and if one of them is a comma, it changes the formula argument separator to a semicolon.
• Excel also changes the delimiter (field separator) of CSV files, despite that the name CSV stands for Comma-separated values.

Note: a workaround to enforce MS Excel to use a comma as delimiter in CSV is to add the following directive to the first line of a CVS file:

Previous Systems

In previous systems (at least up to 10.4), these settings have been stored in other files as well:

Furthermore, the default values (for each Region/Format language) seem to be stored in these files: /System/Library/Frameworks/Carbon.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/HIToolbox.framework/Versions/A/Resources/*.lproj/Localized.rsrc, with the star replaced by a Locale, e.g. Dutch.lproj, English.lproj, or ca.lproj.

Mac OS 10.3

In Mac OS 10.3, the settings were stored in three places:

In this example, the number format is set to '1,234.00€'.

Unconfirmed Locations

Mac OS 10.4 and 10.5 Issue

In Mac OS 10.4 (Tiger) and Mac OS 10.5 (Leopard), there is no easy way to set the decimal separator (the decimal point) to a custom format (10 000.00) rather than European (10.000,00) or US format (10,000.00).

This worked fine in Mac OS 10.3, and it took until Mac OS 10.6 until this was fixed.

In Mac OS 10.3, this format was customizable in the 'Internationalization' preference pane, on the 'Formats' tab. Even in 10.4 and 10.5, you can select a preset from a long list, and further customize the date format and the time format. However, if you want a specific language. Say, Dutch or German there is no way you can have anything but '10.000,00' as the number format.

There were a few solutions:

Tweak an existing locale

Use the defaults write commands explained above.

Use the 10.3 Preference pane

If you have a PowerPC, you can use the 10.3 preference pane, as described on the Mac OS X hints website: 10.4: Restore custom international number formats.

1. Find a copy of the Localization.prefPane on a Panther system.
2. Copy this file (bundle) to ~/Library/PreferencePanes/ on your 10.4 system. From then on, if you open the system preferences, you will simply get the (much better) 10.3 preference pane, which simply allows you to change the number format and the decimal point.

Create a custom locale

Theoretically, it is possible to define a custom Region or language, and set your own defaults in the /System/Library/Frameworks/Carbon.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/HIToolbox.framework/Versions/A/Resources/MyRegion.lproj/Localized.rsrc. I expect that the actual info is stored in a itl0 resources in the resource fork of these files. That said, I really discourage you from changing anything in the /System/Library directory.