Easy way to replace commas by dots?

Question

In some languages the number separator is a dot instead of a comma, which means 17,000 is actually written as 17.000.

Is there an easy way to replace all commas by dots in counters such as views and user points?

Answer 1

You can use filter or appropriate method (since I dont know what exactly you want to alter) and use string replace function

str_replace()

Answer 2

Probably I think that it is issue below.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/437371/php-locale-aware-number-format

Because Q2A don't appoint parameter of number_format() definitely, result may depend on locale. I do not have the experience corresponding to this matter, can you cope at qa-base.php (arround L112)?

Example:

• setlocale(LC_NUMERIC, "C") ?
• setlocale(LC_NUMERIC, "en_US.UTF-8") ?

I'm sorry if worthless. 

Comments

There may be the same thing in .htaccess or php.ini.