# Locale formatting issue in Perspective (pt-BR) – numberFormat ignores regional settings

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/locale-formatting-issue-in-perspective-pt-br-numberformat-ignores-regional-settings/108947>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** perspective, ignition81\
**Created:** [July 25, 2025, 12:01pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/locale-formatting-issue-in-perspective-pt-br-numberformat-ignores-regional-settings/108947 "2025-07-25T12:01:48Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 25, 2025, 3:46pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/locale-formatting-issue-in-perspective-pt-br-numberformat-ignores-regional-settings/108947/5 "2025-07-25T15:46:49Z")

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You can provide an explicit locale to the gateway by providing explicit language and country parameters:

> **[Gateway Configuration File Reference | Ignition User Manual](https://docs.inductiveautomation.com/docs/8.1/appendix/reference-pages/gateway-configuration-file-reference#common-localization-parameters)**
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> This section details the various configuration changes that can be made to the Gateway's configuration file: ignition.conf. Before the Gateway starts, a wrapper service checks the configuration file for parameter values, and then attempts to start...

You can test by running `system.util.getLocale()` somewhere on the gateway (but **not** Perspective), such as a report/alarm pipeline/tag script/etc.

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