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Freemarker format BigDecimal to German Locale not working properly

Following the documentation of FreeMarker :

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Using : 

<#setting number_format="0.##">
<#setting locale="hu">
German people write: ${12345678}

Should output as shown in picture but instead what i get is the below :

For input new BigDecimal(4436372342.10) => 4 436 372 342,10

which doesn't have . but instead has spaces .

Why that happens ?

Solution

  • Seems like there is a documentation error. 

    locale="hu"

    sets a Hungarian locale. Its thousands separator is ' '.

    To set a German locale, try

    locale="de_DE"

    instead. That has '.' as thousands separator.