Bug in: format('%n',[double_number])

[krexon]

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format('%n',[123456789.01])should give '123 456 789.01', bu gives '123?456?789,01' (question marks instead of spaces)

Is it a bug, because in Delphi everything is OK

I use 0.9.29 SVN 26989 FPC 2.5.1

[Marc]

By default fpc uses a "nonbreakable space" character for this (it user settable in a fpc variable I forgot). Lazarus uses UTF8 for strings, this space character lies outside the lower ASCII values so it results in a invalid UTF8 character, which gets displayed as ?
Set this variable to space or the UTF8 equivalent of "nonbreakable space"

[krexon]

Sorry for stupid question, but where should I change this variable?

EDIT:
I found

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ThousandSeparator:=' ';

[Marc]

Its not a stupid question, I only knew that there was one, not which