https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=158073

Mike Kaganski <[email protected]> changed:

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         Resolution|---                         |NOTABUG

--- Comment #1 from Mike Kaganski <[email protected]> ---
This is not a bug, and works correctly, according to the selected import
settings.

As you correctly mentioned, your locale uses decimal comma. What you didn't
mention was that your locale also uses dot as thousands separator.

Since your data uses decimal dot, you need to configure your import
accordingly, so that it knows how to process what character. On your "Img 2",
it is evident that you didn't change the locale of the import (second dropdown
from top); and also you didn't select en-US type for specific columns. In this
mode, import would use German locale to process the data; and every text that
consists of groups of three digits separated by dots would be considered
thousands. So a text "54.782" means in Germany "fifty four thousand seven
hundred eighty two". This number gets imported; and then it is displayed in
cells using a default number format, which doesn't show thousand separators.

Note that "All the dots in place" in the import dialog is just because the
import dialog is designed to show you which text will go to which cell; it
doesn't show you a result of *processing* that text (number recognition).

Either set the whole import locale to en-US, or set it for the selected columns
that contain numbers with decimal dot.

Note that the documentation for the import dialog [1] explains this; see
"Language" section discussing the effect of that field on number recognition,
and "Column Type" section for information about how to set it selectively.

[1]
https://help.libreoffice.org/latest/en-US/text/shared/00/00000208.html?&DbPAR=CALC

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