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gvanessa1990
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February 11, 2026
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Question About Standard Thousands Separator (apostrophes) for Switzerland Locales in Adobe Forms

  • February 11, 2026
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Hello everyone,

We are currently analyzing a behavior in SAP Adobe Forms when generating PDF outputs (Purchase Order printouts). We have noticed that when the PO country is Switzerland (CH) and the language is German (DE), Italian (IT), or French (FR), the amounts are printed using apostrophes (’) as the thousands separator.
However, when the language is English (EN) for the same country, the amounts are printed using a comma (,) instead.

In the Adobe Forms layout (Patterns → Numeric Field), we can see that the thousands separator depends on the locale configuration, and that for the Swiss locales (de-CH, fr-CH, it-CH), the apostrophe appears as the default grouping separator.

My question for the Adobe community is:

Is this behavior the standard and expected formatting for Switzerland in Adobe Forms according to the locale definitions?
More specifically, should the apostrophe (’) be used as the official thousands separator for the Switzerland-German, Switzerland-French, and Switzerland-Italian locales?

We want to confirm whether this formatting is indeed standard per Adobe/CLDR rules or if there might be a configuration issue on our side before communicating this to our SAP business users.

Any clarification or official reference regarding number formatting for Swiss locales in Adobe Forms would be greatly appreciated.