# Number Formatting in Perspective 8.3

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**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** ignition83, perspective\
**Created:** [October 28, 2025, 12:14pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/number-formatting-in-perspective-8-3/111757 "2025-10-28T12:14:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![inov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/977dab/32.png) [@inov](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/inov)\
**Post date:** [October 28, 2025, 12:14pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/number-formatting-in-perspective-8-3/111757/1 "2025-10-28T12:14:16Z")

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I am building a View in Perspective, Ignition 8.3

The View is using a Progress Bar Component. The Progress Bar Component is being used to construct a number of embedded views.

The issue is that with number formatting, I need the currency to be GBP (£) and not USD ($). Is there a way to do this in Ignition out of the box?

The number format in my component’ properties is ‘$ #,##0.00’ which works just fine.

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/2/8/28c5c8907687eca8a4e5085ce2b1a18846cdeb17.png)

When i change the number format in my component’ property to be ‘£ #,##0.00’ then nothing displays. is there a way to handle this case to display the GBP symbol??

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/f/6/f69a6a30ca79ec4d32d63af0be1d6b59db82a502.png)

Thank you in advance

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**Author:** ![Transistor](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/transistor/32/3380_2.png) [@Transistor](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Transistor)\
**Post date:** [October 28, 2025, 2:40pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/number-formatting-in-perspective-8-3/111757/2 "2025-10-28T14:40:38Z")

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You can do it if you change the session variable `locale : en-GB` (but `en-UK` doesn't work) while leaving the format string as `$0,0.00`.

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/f/5/f5eff768221034ce00fc42c9e4ebe4b4323ef436.png)

This trick will not accommodate mixed currencies on various progress bars though.

There should be a way of adding the prefix in CSS using the `::before{content:"£";}` syntax, but I can't figure it out.