diff --git a/include/tcpdf_static.php b/include/tcpdf_static.php
index dc1572637..aaedd1dd6 100644
--- a/include/tcpdf_static.php
+++ b/include/tcpdf_static.php
@@ -106,6 +106,12 @@ class TCPDF_STATIC {
 	 */
 	public static $pageboxes = array('MediaBox', 'CropBox', 'BleedBox', 'TrimBox', 'ArtBox');
 
+	/**
+	 * String thousands separator
+	 * @private static
+	 */
+	private static $thousands_separator = '.';
+
 	/**
      * Array of default cURL options for curl_setopt_array.
      *
@@ -1022,7 +1028,7 @@ public static function getAnnotOptFromJSProp($prop, &$spot_colors, $rtl=false) {
 	 * @public static
 	 */
 	public static function formatPageNumber($num) {
-		return number_format((float)$num, 0, '', '.');
+		return number_format((float)$num, 0, '', self::$thousands_separator);
 	}
 
 	/**
@@ -1035,7 +1041,7 @@ public static function formatPageNumber($num) {
 	 * @public static
 	 */
 	public static function formatTOCPageNumber($num) {
-		return number_format((float)$num, 0, '', '.');
+		return number_format((float)$num, 0, '', self::$thousands_separator);
 	}
 
 	/**
@@ -2656,6 +2662,16 @@ public static function getPageMode($mode='UseNone') {
 		return $page_mode;
 	}
 
+	/**
+	 * Set the thousands separator to use it in the number format.
+	 * @param string $separator
+	 * @return void
+	 * @public static
+	 */
+	public static function setThousandsSeparator($separator) {
+		self::$thousands_separator = $separator;
+	}
+
 } // END OF TCPDF_STATIC CLASS
 
 //============================================================+
diff --git a/tcpdf.php b/tcpdf.php
index cffe210d2..2a1d80b98 100644
--- a/tcpdf.php
+++ b/tcpdf.php
@@ -2997,6 +2997,17 @@ public function setAllowLocalFiles($allowLocalFiles) {
 		$this->allowLocalFiles = (bool) $allowLocalFiles;
 	}
 
+	/**
+	 * Set the thousands separator to use in the number formatting
+	 *
+	 * @param string $separator
+	 * @public
+	 * @return void
+	 */
+	public function setThousandsSeparator($separator) {
+		TCPDF_STATIC::setThousandsSeparator($separator);
+	}
+
 
 	/**
 	 * Throw an exception or print an error message and die if the K_TCPDF_PARSER_THROW_EXCEPTION_ERROR constant is set to true.