Why does Bubble suddenly ignores the dots in an number? now all the prices in our app are 1000 times higher!! 4.5*1.21 is now 5.445 instead of 5,445 in holland thats an major issue!!
Hi @jos2
You can change the separator to the separator of your choice.
The default is most likely the US standard for numbers.
Hope that helps,
Reece from CreatorConcepts
The weird thing is that it worked for months, and suddenly all the prices are 1,000 times higher. I don’t know what changed, but it seems to handle numbers differently than before.
Thanks for the advice, i added the “format as number” and now it works fine.
Perfect! please mark my answer as the solution so it closes it
It sounds like a formatting or localization issue in Bubble, where the system is no longer recognizing the Dutch number format (comma as decimal separator and dot as thousands separator), causing values to be misinterpreted and inflated; for example, 4.5 × 1.21 showing as 5.445 instead of 5,445 suggests the app is treating dots as decimal points rather than thousand separators, so you’ll need to check your app’s regional settings, input formats, or any recent updates that may have reset how numbers are parsed and displayed.
Glad you got this fixed! You’re right that the default tripped you up — we’re aware that the US-default format is a footgun for EU/LATAM builders, and it’s on the list to make this configurable per-app rather than per-element. Sorry for the scare.
Well, I noticed in the past that changing the app language also affect the way numbers, specially thousand and decimal separators, are handled. But I am not sure if this is the case anymore.