Separators are different in different countries. Don't use separators.

Will try to reproduce

Thanks for your quick reply . Not using a thousands separator at all is actually no good solution for us, since we do not want to warn the participants before every numeric question that they are not allowed to use it.

It should be filtered, no?

What should be filtered?

Invalid numbers like "1,00" or "1.00" should be filtered when written to "1" so that the participant knows. Same with "1'00" etc etc.

Unless you want to allow decimals, of course.

Yes, most of the time we want to use decimals (in our case a comma).
But even if we don't want to use decimals and don't allow them, then there is still a bug and LimeSurvey will still transform "1.000" (or "1,000") into a "1" without giving a hint to the participant. I bet most people don't even notice and hence do not know that LimeSurvey automatically transforms a "." (from 1.000) to a "," (which will then turn out as number "1").

I think there could be 2 problems here:
1 - There is no place to set thousand and decimal separator. Am I missing it?
2 - Even if we say the point is decimal, the thusand searator is not allowed.

Thoughts?

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This was discussed extensively in 2015 and 2016. It's just a mess to get right with all different locales. Just don't use a numeric type, use a normal text question, and then write your own regular expression if you really want to validate it.

Perfect! Then I think it is OK to close the ticket, right?

Alright, then we will probably use a normal text question and check the answers afterwards.
Ticket can be closed, thanks for your advice!

Feel free to discuss further on forum, for more advice on how to design regular expression etc. \o