In Costa Rica, a space is used as group separator. You can verify this here: http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_discusi%C3%B3n:Manual_de_estilo/N%C3%BAmeros#Costa_Rica . In LibreOffice, currently a period is used as group separator. Please correct this in the es_CR locale.
Indeed, i18npool/source/localedata/es_CR.xml shows "." for thousand separtors, see http://opengrok.libreoffice.org/xref/core/i18npool/source/localedata/data/es_CR.xml#136.
Julien Nabet committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=78ef368b8ca6fb53b67330c305f8c2c581cbf68e tdf#91009: Correct thousands separator character for locale es_CR It will be available in 5.0.0. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
That change needs to be reworked, please see my comments in https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/15593
Thank you Eike for your feedback, I'll take a look at it.
@Severo: My Spanish isn't good enough to follow the Wiki discussion ;-) but you may also want to get the change into the Unicode Common Locale Data Repository (CLDR), see http://cldr.unicode.org/ and http://cldr.unicode.org/index/bug-reports Currently the group separator for es_CR is listed as '.' at http://www.unicode.org/cldr/charts/latest/by_type/numbers.symbols.html so for example also programs using ICU locales use it for number formatting, see https://ssl.icu-project.org/icu-bin/locexp?d_=en&_=es_CR
Julien Nabet committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=aa06ce15fdd68983001ef33d1931fbaf6b515282 Related tdf#91009: Correct thousands separator character for locale es_CR It will be available in 5.0.0. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
Julien Nabet committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "libreoffice-4-4": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=021943dad044076c10b9b032d4e0b243e64f631c&h=libreoffice-4-4 tdf#91009: Correct thousands separator character for locale es_CR It will be available in 4.4.4. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
Thank you for your prompt action Julien Nabet!
(In reply to Eike Rathke from comment #5) > @Severo: > My Spanish isn't good enough to follow the Wiki discussion ;-) but you may > also want to get the change into the Unicode Common Locale Data Repository Sure thing, I reported the ticket; thank you for your suggestion! http://unicode.org/cldr/trac/ticket/8551
The people at the unicode.org tracker have acknowledged the information and will fix their database. I can confirm that in LO 5.0.0.5 this issue is fixed.