Ticket #17053: formatting.txt.patch

trunk/docs/topics/i18n/formatting.txt

@@ -61 +61 @@
 will try to use a locale specific format whenever it outputs a value
 in a template.
 
+To enable number formatting with thousand separators it is necessary to set 
+:setting:`USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR = True <USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR>` in your 
+settings file. Alternatively, you could use 
+:doc:`django.contrib.humanize <ref/contrib/humanize>` to format numbers 
+in your template.
+
 However, it may not always be appropriate to use localized values --
 for example, if you're outputting Javascript or XML that is designed
 to be machine-readable, you will always want unlocalized values. You