# Power Table - set locale

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/power-table-set-locale/11303>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [March 2, 2016, 8:50pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/power-table-set-locale/11303 "2016-03-02T20:50:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![cristihcd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7bcc69/32.png) [@cristihcd](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/cristihcd)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2016, 8:50pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/power-table-set-locale/11303/1 "2016-03-02T20:50:30Z")

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Hi,

We have a project for which we use two locales (translations): English and Romanian

In Romanian, the decimal separator is comma (1.234,10). Our user’s keyboards are set to English, so entering a dot on the numberpad results in a dot, not a comma.

When our users edit a table, entering 1.20 results in 12 rather than 1.2.

I would see two solutions to this problem:

1. Modify the text entered by the user in the cell, replacing “,” with “.” – don’t know how to do this as I receive a float, not a string.

2. Setting the locale for the column to Romanian. So far I have tried this:

```auto
import java.util.Locale

en_locale = java.util.Locale("en")
ro_locale = java.util.Locale("ro")

col_index = 2
comp = event.source.parent.getComponent('tbl_sen') 
current_locale = comp.columnAttributesData.getValueAt(2,"locale")

if current_locale != en_locale:
	updated_ds = system.dataset.setValue(comp.columnAttributesData, col_index, "locale", en_locale)
	comp.columnAttributesData = updated_ds
```

Doesn’t seem to work. Is the column “locale” read-only? Do you have any suggestions?

Thanks