Thank you very much for the suggestion mootari.
Although the locale argument solves the problem for the tables where it is specified, it would have been great to have the option to set the characters for decimal and thousand separators notebook-wide. For instance, in this use case, locale: 'de' argument serves only as the first step of reaching the desired behavior (i.e., no thousand separators + decimal separator as a comma):
The full solution requires quite a bit of fiddling:
I think a global locale setting (e.g., in Observable’s user preferences or as a notebook-wide style parameter) would have made this less painful. Turning off the thousand separators completely or having the option to use a custom character (e.g., apostrophe (')) probably would have been useful features as well.
(Of special note: I generally represent years as numeric values instead of as dates, and having to hack each table to turn the thousand separators off for year columns is often my only issue with the otherwise stellar Inputs.table method.)
Maybe this has become more of a feature request now, but any further tips/shorter workarounds would still be appreciated. Thanks in advance!