https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=163681

Mike Kaganski <[email protected]> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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         Resolution|---                         |NOTABUG
             Status|UNCONFIRMED                 |RESOLVED

--- Comment #2 from Mike Kaganski <[email protected]> ---
It means that the locale set in the import dialog, used for interpreting the
data in the file, is using dot as thousand separator; when it separates the
group(s) of three, and expected, the number recognition treats it as thousand
separator, and knows that 1.234 is "one thousand two hundred thirty-four". But
when the dot doesn't separate three digits, i.e. appears at unexpected places,
the parser sees that this "1.23456" string is not a valid number (in this
locale), so it keeps it as a string (including all the characters in it,
verbatim).

If you want to convert the data to numbers, you need to use the locale that
fits the data (e.g., English (USA)). If you need to import all the data as
text, you need to set the columns' types to text in the import dialog.

Closing NOTABUG.

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