# Decimal and thousands separators not displaying correctly on widgets

Check that your browser's locale is set to the correct country.

June 17, 2022

## International Numeric Conventions

The [number formatting options](https://support.geckoboard.com/en/articles/6055761-set-the-format-of-widget-numbers) available for widgets is determined by the language settings of your own browser or machine. Check that the browser's locale is set to the correct country.

You can use the [Internationalization Checker](http://validator.w3.org/i18n-checker/) to discover the language(s) currently being requested by your browser.

Browsers will generally allow you to specify a list of languages, so that if your first choice is not available you can say what alternative languages to try, and in what order.

## International Numeric Conventions

Great Britain and the United States are two of the few places in the world that use a period to indicate the decimal place. Many other countries use a comma instead.

Likewise, while the U.K. and U.S. use a comma to separate groups of thousands, many other countries use a period instead, and some countries separate thousands groups with a thin space.